newbieprospector
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I'm currently in between detectors so I tend to do a lot of researching and exploring for new spots now. My last outing before the rain and snow, I decided to go on a little hike through some woods in my neighborhood and followed a small tributary up from a creek. While stepping over a log in the creek I nearly stepped right on a huge scalloped shell (8 inches across and 7 inches high). Considering this is a freshwater creek, I was a little confused to how it got there. I began to notice that the banks of the creek just a short distance upstream were full of shells of different shapes and sizes. I took some photos of the big shell and sent them to a paleontologist at the nearby university. She confirmed that it is a Chesapecten Jeffersonius about 4 million years old!!! Of course, I went back with a basket and collected many more types and quite a few intact. So far, I have been able to pull out some very nice specimens of Balanus Concavus (Barnacle), Dallarca (Ark Shell), Lunatia Heros (Moon Snail), Turritella Plebia (Snail), Dentalium Attenuatum (Tusk Shell), Ostrea Carolinensis (Oyster), Astrhelia Palmata (Coral), Melosia Staminea (Astarte Clam), and all shapes and sizes of the Chesapecten Jeffersonius (Scallop Shell). Some of them are even intact with a top and bottom!
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