Shark Teeth and a Civil War Clay Pipe

da fossz, my kids, and I went fossil hunting in the Edisto river in South Carolina a couple of weeks ago. I found the usual assortment of angustidens, megalodon, mako, tiger, sand tiger, hemipristis shark teeth, ray plates, all of which I was glad to get. I also got a sailfish rostrum - an uncommon find. I also got two whale teeth. My best find came when I found a sand area a few inches deep and fanned to the gravel. To my surprise when I reached the bottom of the sand I saw a clay pipe! My first ever! my buddy da fossz, who has many pipes from SC rivers, estimated its age at about Civil War. Jedi Master has an identical pipe to mine found in another SC river, and he said the date was between 1840 and 1860. Finally, new member wedigdixie, much more an authority on this sort of thing than me, dated the piece between 1848 and 1864. A very sweet find!