I've been going down to Walton for probably 61 years & 9 months of my 61 years! We have a hut on the Hipkins beach. Back in the 70's hardly anyone looked for the teeth & there were literally thousands of them! A wee bit further down the from where you are there was a WW2 firing range. As kids we'd go down there & pick spent bullets out of the mudflats there. I did take my son down there a few years back & there were still a few but I think the passage of time & the advent of metal detectors has all but cleaned them up now. Just inland from where you are a Halifax bomber came down, actually a victim of friendly fire. It was a RCAF plane ironically shotdown by Canadians up by the tower there. 😕 There is a memorial to the boys who died in it, made from the props of the actual plane, at the graveyard in the town. Putmans, the local photographers, have actual pictures online of the excavation of the plane in the 70's. Again, just up the beach where the bullets were, up until the early 80's, there was the deep impacted wreckage of a Hurricane that was shot down. The pilot bailed & unfortunately died near Holland on Sea & the plane flew on to the Naze!
@@NatureScopeYT I struggle a bit now with aging eyesight! There is a technique that I use when I go in for a swim to walk along the actual surf line. The aggregate effect of the water tends to sometimes wash the lighter teeth out onto where the waves wash up & retreat on the beach. I think a kid did find a megalodon tooth there in the 90's but I'm not too sure how that worked as I'm not too sure the teeth we are finding are from the same period? The secret generally is to go for the patches of very light shingle, about the size of peas. 👍
Cheers Dave! Got chatting to a local who’s really into his fossil hunting a few days after I filmed this. He gave us some tips and tricks, the sort of advice you can’t find on google. Went out the next day and we found around 25 in an hour 😂!
This is exactly the video I was looking for, we're heading to the naze this Friday and now we know exactly what to look for and where to look so thank you. I'd love to see more videos of you fossil hunting, it's incredibly useful and my 4 year old (a budding palaeontologist) was enthralled!
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I've been going down to Walton for probably 61 years & 9 months of my 61 years! We have a hut on the Hipkins beach.
Back in the 70's hardly anyone looked for the teeth & there were literally thousands of them!
A wee bit further down the from where you are there was a WW2 firing range. As kids we'd go down there & pick spent bullets out of the mudflats there. I did take my son down there a few years back & there were still a few but I think the passage of time & the advent of metal detectors has all but cleaned them up now.
Just inland from where you are a Halifax bomber came down, actually a victim of friendly fire. It was a RCAF plane ironically shotdown by Canadians up by the tower there. 😕
There is a memorial to the boys who died in it, made from the props of the actual plane, at the graveyard in the town. Putmans, the local photographers, have actual pictures online of the excavation of the plane in the 70's.
Again, just up the beach where the bullets were, up until the early 80's, there was the deep impacted wreckage of a Hurricane that was shot down. The pilot bailed & unfortunately died near Holland on Sea & the plane flew on to the Naze!
Wow that’s all so interesting. Thanks so much for sharing 😁 Would have been a lot easier to make videos in the 70’s with all those teeth!
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I struggle a bit now with aging eyesight!
There is a technique that I use when I go in for a swim to walk along the actual surf line. The aggregate effect of the water tends to sometimes wash the lighter teeth out onto where the waves wash up & retreat on the beach.
I think a kid did find a megalodon tooth there in the 90's but I'm not too sure how that worked as I'm not too sure the teeth we are finding are from the same period?
The secret generally is to go for the patches of very light shingle, about the size of peas. 👍
Great video! Keep them coming
Thanks so much!
Some cool finds 👍🏻 Would definitely love to see more 😁
Glad you enjoyed Scott
Another great video. Keep up the amazing work
Thank you! 😄
Love the beach videos and I look forward to the post-storm finds. Those were some really nice teeth too.
Cheers Dave! Got chatting to a local who’s really into his fossil hunting a few days after I filmed this. He gave us some tips and tricks, the sort of advice you can’t find on google. Went out the next day and we found around 25 in an hour 😂!
This is exactly the video I was looking for, we're heading to the naze this Friday and now we know exactly what to look for and where to look so thank you. I'd love to see more videos of you fossil hunting, it's incredibly useful and my 4 year old (a budding palaeontologist) was enthralled!
I’m glad you enjoyed! We have a few more fossil videos on the channel feel free to check then out 😄
They are almost all gone but somehow I found 4 today
Great work Hayden! Any good ones?