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Went out Wednesday, expecting a super low tide.  When I arrived I saw exposed sandbars everywhere, but there was also ice everywhere, the beach was frozen out 50 yards, ice covered (spectacular but I have had issues with wet phones, so no photos) and  I quickly gave up and headed home.  Tried  again a few days later after warmth and rain.  The tide was very low but everything seemed sand covered.  There was a line of shells at the wash and I walked out 20-30 feet where I normally cannot go in my boots and picked up a few medium size chunks of whale bones, but mostly the beach seemed devoid even of much trashy stuff and no teeth.  The water was super cold the beach above the tide line was frozen and pickings were scarce for the first hour.  Started to leave but as the tide started in I started finding a stray tooth and other stuff here and there.  Lots of small "whale bones", some dense and solid as rock, others cancelous bone and three "shrimp coprolite burrows".  Found an old piece of deer skull with a hollow portion of antler attached.  A porpoise tooth.  And a tooth, claw or bone (?) with longitudinal fine enameled stripes, somewhat hollow on the other side.  I'm sure more was moved by the storms last week, just need the layer of sand to be washed out.

 

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@Tidgy's Dad  Thanks. The tiger shark tooth is different than the few i've found; thought it was broken, but looking closely it seems intact and "squashed" a bit.  Try to post some of the bone stuff later.

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A few pictures of the black enamel striped tooth, claw, bone (along with weird tiger shark tooth, porpoise tooth and skate dermal scute)

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Typical  "whale bone pieces" (a lot with the super low tide), most are heavy, rock-like but easy to see grain and fibers in bone, some look spongy.

 

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Concave sided lump of whale bone balanced on a thin piece of bone(?) to show a long V-shaped cut (it is rock hard and would be difficult to do so cleanly today) plus a bone end that someone probably recognizes (it's not thick and heavy, probably modern).  Last shows  other side of bone plus piece of deer skull and antler , and another bone (all modern?)

 

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