PinCo, FL beadeths

[tomclark]

 

[Tdog]

Wowzer! I wish I could find a cache of beads!

 

[newnan man]

Wow, those are awesome beads. I've always wanted to find a drilled sharks tooth.

 

[PaleIO]

I love that shark's tooth! I have a friend that worked on an airforce base conducting controlled burns, he has a 5 gal bucket nearly full of teeth but I have never seen one drilled. Something we don't see much in my part of the world.

 

[tomclark]

They were like strung candies in place in a wall of a midden being taken out for a driveway...

 

[old digger]

Very Nice!

 

[smallfoot]

Drilling a sharks tooth is not an easy thing even with modern tools. That would have surely taken some time and patience. I've drilled a few with diamond bits and it's not always the bit that wins!

 

[tomclark]

Sometimes you don't need to drill a hole, some worm or shellish did it for you 20 million years earlier! Midden, found in two pieces

 

[H.P.]

Very cool tooth, not hardly common,,, If your gonna find a bead you might as well find a necklace,Lol. a very very nice and rare find, Looks like some glass beads, blue might be Spanish...Some worms just know where to drill! Lol....interesting post Tom.,

 

[Fat]

Wouldn’t a cache of beads be named “a string “.
Those are the kinda of artifacts I just love to imagine.
I can easily picture hundreds and hundreds of beads being made, every-belly stuffed full of mussels or snail? Piles of shells, busting them down grind round punching holes.
Happy, busy even a form communal or social gatherings. A celebration of living life to the fullest.
I never thought about sharks having cavities? It would take all morning to brush that hand sized one

 

[antmike915]

Excellent Tom, I would be ecstatic just finding one.