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4/27/2002 8:57:41 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

Fossils

Hello once again Ditchweezil, I sent an e-mail about a month or so ago commending your site...I was very new to this wonderful hobby and things have definatly come around for me....I live In Lexington and go down to the Low Country to feed my addiction of finding fossils. I am pleased to report that on my 3rd trip ever I found a MEG 5 1/4" Although the right side of the root was broke off. But what an unexplainable feeling I had when this Monster tooth fell into my hand...(Sigh) Ive found all sorts of things, a few i would like to send pics to you to see if you may have any idea as to what they are....they are not teeth. One im guessing on the research Ive done throughout the internet is possibly a peice of a whale jaw bone the other looks to be some sort of tusk or something....I believe im hunting in the same layers as you are athough 40 miles inland and about 15 to 18 feet deep. Please reply If you do not mind me sending you photos. I work outta town all week and will try to check back before I leave the end of this weekend... Thanks man and also If you want to get together sometime Ive got 6000 acres of hunting parcel that has ditches all over throughout it with the edisto river bordering the whole east side of it.... Let me know!!! Carl Rowe

4/30/2002 12:28:53 AM

ditchweezil

328 posts

Re: Fossils

Dude, you can send me as many pictures as you want. I love looking at fossils!!! I'll do my best to identify them. You should be able to send them to the address in this post, but if not, let me know and I'll give you a different one. Sounds like you find some great stuff. Can't wait to see the pictures. Reading your message really made me think back. I remember finding my first meg, too. I've been hunting shark teeth since I was a little kid. My dad would take my brother and me out to a couple of places and we would come back with 20 or 30 every time. By the time I was 10 I had over 15,000 teeth, but I hadn't found one over 2 inches long. We did a lot of hunting up on 17-A near the sand mines, but there were few large teeth there. My brother found half a 5 inch tooth there, and I thought it was awesome, but I never found anything that large there. It wasn't until I was about 14 that I found my first meg. I remember it like it was yesterday. We (my dad, my brother, and me) were all shrimping with the drag net under the Sam Rittenberg Blvd. Bridge that crosses the Ashley river. I picked up a crab and he pinched me hard, so I took a break from walking the drag net for a while. Just on a whim, I walked the banks. Really, I was just killing time until my finger quit bleeding. But there, stuck in the bank, I saw the jet black root of the biggest whole tooth I had ever found at that point. It was a really worn 4 inch black tooth, but it was the best thing I had ever seen. I remember how I felt, too. It was just amazing that a kid could find something like that! Much less me! I used to just lay there in my bed staring at that tooth in awe of how big the shark was that used to own it. I thought it was so cool that I donated it to the Charleston Museum so lots of people could see it. I wish I hadn't, because believe it or not, they don't display Meg teeth there! I never was able to get it back, so maybe that's what drives me to keep hunting teeth. The drive to fill the void left by the absence of that tooth. I don't know. I just know I love hunting fossils and I'll never quit. Thanks a zillion for the invite. I would love to come out there and hunt with you. Email me and we'll talk a little more about it. Great post, man! Really took me back!

12/30/2002 10:52:27 PM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Fossils

Carl, are you from Lexington, KY? That is where I was raised. Here is my web site for maryland fossils. http://www.olg.com/dnv good luck collecting!

4/9/2004 2:10:23 AM

legacyForum

725 posts

Re: Fossils

Wow, Its been quite sometime since I last posted and you have sure come along way with the website... As always what a plesant visit to your site!! I havent hunted for teeth in over a year or more.. Looking at your site kinda gave me the bug again....But I havent anywhere to go...Im no longer a member of the Hunt club I was in (Yearly dues to expensive).. Good to see your still Hard at it....What a great collection youve added since my last visit... I sure would like to go to giant cement pit...any Ideas how I could get into that place legally? ttyl Carl

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