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.
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!
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.,
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.
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I never thought about sharks having cavities? It would take all morning to brush that hand sized one