ARTIFACT and SHARK TEETH Hunting The Chesapeake Bay! | AMAZING FINDS! (2023) 

One of the simplest and essential laws that must be followed for our hobby to continue to exist, is to respect the cliffs by never digging in them. While fallen chunks of clay that lay on the beach independent of the cliffs can be checked and manipulated, the cliffs themselves should never be touched. The cliffs themselves are owned by various land owners until they naturally erode and become part of the beach below the high tide line. Digging in the cliffs speeds up the erosion process and is in itself trespassing and destruction of property. When this happens, not only are laws broken, but the image and reputation of all fossil collectors are degraded. Over time this leads to more pressure to limit public access in fears that fossil collectors will negatively impact properties and communities. This isn’t a prediction, it has occurred. As if respecting property rights is not important enough, this is NOT safe! Digging in the cliffs is illegal AND dangerous. If you ever feel you have found something special and it is in the cliffs, please contact the CMM (Calvert Marine Museum). They can come out and check to see if there is anything truly special about the specimen, if so contact the respective land owner’s, and with land owner permission, safely extract it with minimal damage to the cliff and with safety as a priority. Thank you to all those who enjoy this hobby and respect the laws and etiquettes unique to the hobby.

@@NatureLanny You do make some great points here. Thanks for opening my eyes Nature Lanny!

@@eastcoastlithics sorry if I came off pretty rude at first I'll admit I get pretty butt hurt when I see this stuff. We live here and respect the laws then we see lots of ppl come here from all over the world and they just don't care. So I'm sorry for being a little rude I'm glad you understand and commented back the way you did. If you wanna find some good fossils PM me and I'll try to help best I can.

@NatureLanny I completely understand haha dont worry about it. Heck Id be extremely upset especially as a local if people were doing this to my spot all the time so you are rightfully angry. I just wasnt looking at the bigger picture. Id definitely take ya up on that offer! Next time Im down Ill be sure to do it ethically. Nice kirk you found by the way 👍🏻

@eastcoastlithics daaaang thanks for noticing man. I made a couple short videos idk if I'll ever do much more youtubing. Props to you for making whole videos I can't do it haha.

Awsome! Thanks for watching brother

Thanks! It was a lot of fun to find stuff that old

Thats super cool! Probably the same layer

Thanks!! I subbed you yesterday, i will check out your channel now

Care to elaborate?

Did you see the girl who pulled the 6 inch meg last year?

Thankyou sir! Did you happen to see the hickory selfbow short? Not my nicest one but not a bad shooter

@@eastcoastlithics I’m watching now!

Thanks for taking the time to watch! I had a good time finding it all ✌🏻 Little disappointed I didnt find any points but its all good🤙🏼

Thanks, you got some nice quartzite near you I bet

@@eastcoastlithics lots of places to look at

If your ever in maryland, calvert cliffs brother its the place to be for sure!

Its never too late to start! I find it easier to do with a strainer on a stick to scoop stuff out of the water.

Im sure ill find one at some point, especially when I go over to the big cliffs ✌🏻 My brother loves this stuff too I like taking him out with me and helping him learn alongside me. Im sure itll be a fun thing to talk about when we’re older.

@@farmgirl7080 No it is not.

My boy we mustve found 150 at least haha

Thanks! some were almost as small as a grain of sand haha

It was public acess a few months before and then they shut the area down for the winter (there were no major collapses) the park ranger was only right in doing his job. There were a ton of other collectors there doing the same thing but that doesnt make it right.

Thanks!

Maryland