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Headed up to Walcott in Norfolk Saturday just gone, got there nice and early to beat the crowds, luckily the cold weather had put a lot of people off! Anyway, walked off towards Happisburgh and headed down below the sea defences, was soon finding small pieces of bone but nothing of any major interest, when suddenly i spotted it, up against the sea wall, standing out like a sore thumb, a tooth fragment! I quickly grabbed my prize and gazed in awe at it. I have travelled many miles searching for one of these and now i held one in my hands. 

 

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I stowed my price in my bag and continued on my way, skipping along the beach until i reached the next groyne, walking up to the corner where you are able to pull yourself up the wall i froze. In front of me, laying on the sand, another one, bigger, better and mine. I couldn't believe it, two in one day! Pure ecstasy filled my veins. The markings on this one were incredible.

 

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I continued down to Happisburgh with my bag now considerably heavier (for once). Upon reaching it i could see a lot of other people searching the beach there so i decided to walk back the way i came but search on the tide line now as it was nearly dead low. i walked and waded down the beach until i got to around the halfway mark, i was on the phone at the time to a friend telling him about my day (gloating) and i wasn't really paying much attention so much so i nearly stood on it, looking down, with waves washing over it was another, this one was half buried in the sand so i dug it out like a madman and soon held my prize, this one had been rolled by the waves more so and had been worn down a bit.

 

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I carefully packed this one away and walked back to my car. I met a few other hunters on the way with kids who were most impressed by my finds.

 

Now i have no idea of species on these, other than the fragment and second one being Mammoth and someone suggested the last one could be a straight tusked elephant, if anyone could expand my knowledge that would be great! 

 

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This is my super serious fossil hunting face. It may surprise you but i am filled with joy inside.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

 

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Thanks guys, i think i was very lucky to get these before someone else beat me to it! The previous evening i was undecided whether to travel a distance away or stay local to me and im glad i chose to travel! 

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14 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Tom you might think about giving them a long soak in fresh water to remove the sea salts. :dinothumb:

Hi Bobby, thanks, i shall do!

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Great report and finds!   :dinothumb:

Thanks for sharing it.  :) 

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Fantastic. I guess that proverbial horseshoe was with you today.

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Bucket list items for sure, twice in one trip...don't you wish you could test to see if there were from the same animal.?:megdance:

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Wow, that's incredible!!! Congratulations! :envy:

I suppose your teeth are probably from the Late Pleistocene, somewhere around the 40'000 year mark? I heard that there were similar locations to the Dutch beaches on the other side of the North Sea, and the mammoth material I find at the Zandmotor is that old. So far the best mammoth piece I've found is one single lamella. Do you know how old your finds are? 

Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

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I am speechless at your incredible good fortune. Thanks for showing these!

"Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs

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