Fossil Hunting Norfolk 2021

Some exceptional fossil finds made along the Norfolk Coast UK

[@RalphsNaturalSelections]

I noticed recently someone was looking to purchase some Tooth , and you explained you would rather give them some than sell it . On reading that you instantly won my respect mate and that is a credit to you bigtime. and I could sense your respect for these incredible Artefacts. I am exactly the same as you . I realise there are people who really want to own something so special but can not access them as we can , and can totally understand that , but in the same breath how the hell can you put a price on some thing so naturally beautiful but coupled with such mystery and history , it almost feels disrespectful to the majestic animals . I have given away many pieces from my collection to close friends and family once I have multiples of the same find . So it pains me to see people who have no passion for the subject treating such incredible historical material as a commodity simply to make a fast buck .To me my finds seem priceless. So big respect to you mate .

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks mate , i totally agree with what you are saying I don't want to profit from nature , this stuff is out there just waiting to be discovered for free . I do have the upmost respect for these fossils and just how incredibly old they are . The last piece I found in the video I would never sell and I will keep in my collection that is the best fragment I have found so far, it is basically a connection through time to that mammoth which once roamed those lands .

[@RalphsNaturalSelections]

@@Treasurehunter11001 Too true bud

[@TheEtchesCollection]

Who new the Norfolk coastline could look so incredible and otherworldly. Those Drone shots are so pretty.

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thankyou for watching , the drone shots definitely added to the video,

[@Hitokage]

The drone shots are like from National Geographic documentaries :D

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Awesome ! I am learning flying shots from watching other peoples KZbin videos

[@diggingappalachia954]

Thank you so much, I am shooting for 2 or 3 videos a week

[@Treasurehunter11001]

@@diggingappalachia954 no problem look forward to it !

[@MichelleSmith-te2so]

So this is my favorite video yet ! Loved being able to see all of the cliffs ,as I can't even see over a fence . See you soon 😃 keep it up .

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks Michelle those cliffs look incredible from the air such a variety of sediments and colours , glad you enjoyed the video , I definitely enjoyed making it . Hoping to do a similar sort of video from Happisburgh but I think I am going to struggle to make any finds as good as these. I have a load of fossilised bones you can have from the beach in the video if you want them.

[@MichelleSmith-te2so]

@@Treasurehunter11001 Happisburgh has so many wonderful treasures ,yes would be great to see a video from there .....you shall have to look for stone tools ...perhaps a hand axe will be your next discovery 😉 Yes please about the bone ...I would be chuffed to bits to have the bone ...thankyou for thinking of me 😃

[@Treasurehunter11001]

No problem i will sort those out, I might keep that huge vert for now, that was very unexpected. A hand axe and a whole Mammoth tooth are my bucket listers from Happisburgh Just seems harder to find stuff there going to put some intention into it !

[@MichelleSmith-te2so]

@@Treasurehunter11001 omg I was not expecting that massive vert ,indeed you should keep that it blooming awesome 👏

[@MichelleSmith-te2so]

You know what you've got to do research ,then stomp the beaches of happiburgh repeatedly ...you know you will find the holy grail .

[@tylowren2005]

Your main mammoth tooth appears to be from a southern mammoth which was exclusively living in Europe and Asia. Great find 👍

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for the ID Tylo that's awesome news!

[@tylowren2005]

@@Treasurehunter11001 for the mammoth teeth, and thanks again?

[@Treasurehunter11001]

And thanks for the whale ID

[@tylowren2005]

@@Treasurehunter11001 you’re welcome

[@shy3151]

Wow 🤩 Such beautiful scenery, and you captured it so perfectly! That ammonite is impressive too. Nice! ❤️

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks glad you liked the video, I was surprised with how nicely the ammonite split actually , some of those erratics are tricky to crack

[@rickypatterson8973]

I looked to see what your name is...alas. Perhaps I’ll find out later. Your Aerial shots combined with music were outstanding!!! I’m going to congratulate you on your amazing skill set for your creative talents even though I’m very excited about your fossil finds. I have a Southern Mastodon tooth that very nearly matches yours. I found mine in Myrtle Beach of South Carolina (USA) I would love to visit England for beach collecting under the cliffs! You guys seem to have it all.

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for the awesome comment Ricky ! hoping to make more fossil videos this year with drone shots of the area I am searching .

[@ForgottenFossils]

Brilliant finds mate! and stunning scenery shots.

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for checking it out, that's the best piece of tooth I have found so far, its a real stunner

[@raygrange7312]

That was absolutely amazing. I became totally absorbed in the photography. The cliff formations at the end were incredible. You are a man of many talents.👍

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks Ray I am just starting out with the drone but I am concerned now I may have peaked too early 😁 . Looking forward to filming more dramatic coastlines in Yorkshire or down south once the travel restrictions are lifted. That beach in the video is my local one

[@raygrange7312]

@@Treasurehunter11001 wish I had a local like that. Forgot to mention the fossils. Great stuff. Is there much in the chalk formation?

[@Treasurehunter11001]

@@raygrange7312 there is quite a few sponge imprints on the chalk, also an abundance of Echinoids and Belemnites

[@raygrange7312]

@@Treasurehunter11001 I do like echinoids. Happy hunting.

[@chefapocalypto8807]

Stunning, and the cinematography was just perfect, can't wait to explore later this year

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks Alex , I really want to get back to the Yorkshire Coast !

[@SaltwaterSean]

Wow. I love the drone footage and the fossils are so friggin cool

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for checking it out Sean!

[@tincuptimmetaldetecting9259]

Great video! Loved the drone shots!!

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks buddy

[@fossilwildlife5198]

The drone shots are stunning 😃 5:40 I also would say that this is a big whale vertebra 👍🏻Wow! 👍🏻 But how old could it be? These teeth could belong to mammoths (woolly mammoth). But I'm also thinking about forest elelphant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Because the enamel plates are relativey thick and have a relatively big gap of each other. And the humps are more pronounced (14:08). So not sure if they are mammoth or some sort of elephant... Anyway, great fossils and beautiful drone shots my friend ⛏️😉 Stay safe!

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for watching and I always appreciate your IDs and opinions on my finds 👍

[@Treasurehunter11001]

I am just trying to research how old that vert could be , with some speculation it maybe late Pliocene or early Pleistocene 3.3 to 2.5 million years old

[@RalphsNaturalSelections]

That partial whale vertebra is a really cool chunk of Bone mate ,well found !. That would definitely go onto a fossil Wishlist of mine. Have you tried researching anymore more like what whale it may have came from , .likely age estimation do you think it came up from where it was in situ or rolled in from much further out ?. Would be bloody interesting to know more if you find out . Just imagine the journeys that must of been on , what with the vast distances their migration can take , fascinating . Thank you for sharing that Beast

[@Treasurehunter11001]

I think the vert may have come out of the red crag deposit , I learnt this from Louie Chidwick who commented on a different video, he said this deposit dates between 3 to 1 million years old , it can contain Pleistocene seabed fossils . The shape of that vert would also be easily rolled by the sea so could have come out of the crag further out from the beach and rolled I guess ,that’s the largest piece of bone I have seen on that beach so far . I am just speculating though Ralph , you probably know a lot more about this than I do , good luck on your next hunt 👍

[@RalphsNaturalSelections]

@@Treasurehunter11001 we are hunting different geological areas bud and there is vast amount we can only speculate on but i do enjoy trying to identify stuff when it comes up so fragmented , but when i cant , i do contact experts like my steppe mammoth molar , i knew it was mammoth but totally got id of everything wrong lol . happy to let a professor correctly id it from natural history museum .once exhausting my own research first . but tried telling him my id first . next time i should be able to recognise that species hopefully from only a couple of plates .so just taking one find at a time . thanks for your reply and good luck too .

[@tylowren2005]

Some absolutely amazing finds

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks Tylo

[@thearrowheadreapers8668]

Very good video and loved the finds🏹

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for watching my friend , hope you are keeping well , and good luck on your next hunt

[@jellybean1102]

Awesome video! Incredible views!!!

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it

[@echo9970]

Amazing ending to your great video, we do have some of the most stunning coastline don't we. Your saying you can't wait to go back to hunting in Yorkshire..I have lived in North Yorkshire for the last 25yrs I love it here my favourite place is the grouse moors just love it, I work my dogs on the moors. I use to go fossil hunting many many years ago, when I was a kid I use to go to the quarry that Sir David Attenborough 1st got the bug of the world we live in.. I have not been out looking for fossil from then. I would love to start looking again, so were is the best place to go in Yorkshire? I could take my dog to the beach and look for fossils at the same time. I just sub to your channel.

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for watching the video and the sub. You live in the right place if you want to find Jurassic fossils , if you hunted at Port Mulgrave , Runswick bay to Kettleness, Saltwick Bay, all these locations yield a lot of fossils , ammonites being the most common but also the possibility of finding bones from marine reptiles .

[@ReckerRob563]

Would you mind telling me which beach this is? I really can't place the drone footage? Me and my wife are desperate to find a mammoth tooth fragment. Brilliant videos by the way

[@WightFossilTours]

Great video, the drone really takes it to the next level 😜 Love the colour of the crystal in that tooth 🤩

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for watching👍 i developed a right tooth addiction finding those bits i can tell you. Those colours are nice on that one. The drone brings a whole new perspective for sure !

[@WightFossilTours]

@@Treasurehunter11001 what wrong with left teeth 😜 Drone footage was amazing, looked very close to being involved in a bird strike 😬🤣🤣

[@Treasurehunter11001]

@@WightFossilTours 🤣🤣 left are good too, yeah a bird strike could of been imminent with that amount of seagulls you just got to hold your nerve I think they thought the drone was a seagull actually

[@WightFossilTours]

@@Treasurehunter11001 it looked pretty cool with all the sea gulls. There has been some nice mammoth bits coming out hear recently, Simone found a 4ft feemer a couple of weeks ago 🤩

[@WightFossilTours]

Please excuse my dyslexia

[@robertolbison2666]

hi just came across your channel and love your content, where would you say in Norfolk is the best place to find ammonites

[@davidthomas6859]

Wow 🤩 some fantastic finds ,never fossiled in Norfolk,great video 🙏⚒

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for watching David , those were some of the best finds I ever made there 👍

[@davidthomas6859]

@@Treasurehunter11001 Loved the Mammoth tooth 🦷,do you find complete ones.⚒

[@Treasurehunter11001]

I haven't found a complete one yet, but that's what I hope one day will happen 🤞 that piece at the end of the last video was the best condition one so far

[@davidthomas6859]

@@Treasurehunter11001 Really nice 👍.

[@diggingappalachia954]

Hey, me again... I guess one of the fossils that I have found is a platycerid

[@maryiscrafting7642]

Wow! I'm visiting on Saturday to hopefully find some treasures! Watching this has made me even more excited!

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Its a great place , never know what you could find , Thanks for watching !

[@maryiscrafting7642]

@@Treasurehunter11001 I found a mammoth tooth fragment at Mundesley a couple of years ago, and have various fossils at home. It's such a buzz isn't it! Fingerscrossed for Saturday

[@Treasurehunter11001]

@@maryiscrafting7642 i know what you mean i am actually addicted to finding Mammoth tooth fragments for the buzz

[@maryiscrafting7642]

Well I might bump into you at some point! Happy finding!

[@Treasurehunter11001]

@@maryiscrafting7642 I have bumped into a few people now who watch my videos , good luck Saturday

[@tonynicholls6311]

Absolutely stunning. We met a few months ago walking from Cart Gap to Happisburgh. That is real professional quality.

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Hi Tony thanks for watching , yes I remember the tide was in a little further than I was anticipating on that day . Great to meet you hoping to go back there soon

[@tonynicholls6311]

Yes, not the best timing. It won't be long now before we are back there. Can't wait.

[@patchjohanson]

Nice juvenile proboscidean tooth at the end. And, I would say that the enamel is by definition opal in the freshly fractured specimen, as well as others you've previously shown. We find similar pleistocene fossils here in Minnesota, USA...

[@diggingappalachia954]

Great film work

[@tylowren2005]

Have you been back lately. Because you should do another fossil hunting video at Longbarden if that’s where it is?

[@yvonnedraganski1006]

Wow, this is such a great Video, thanks for this. May i ask you, what the Song (Minute 14) is called? That all toghether makes you want to go on vacation :)

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Yvonne i am currently away at work and don't have my ipad with the song title on . I can let you know in about 2 weeks time when I get home. It was a track I downloaded from Epidemic Sounds . They have some really great music for creators . Really happy you liked the video

[@diggingappalachia954]

Thank you so much

[@jldronepics1593]

Really interesting video.. big like and new sub..🙂👍

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for checking it out and the sub !

[@lynnscott8286]

Thank you for putting labels on your finds

[@Treasurehunter11001]

You are so welcome!

[@ianjones4984]

good work simon ineed a mammouth tooth in devon

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thats the best piece I have found there

[@johnstewart439]

Whale vertebra. Probably Pliocene in age and originally came from one of the crags. The mammoth teeth appear to have relatively wide spaces between the enamel lamellae which suggests an early mammoth species like Mammuthus meridional is or similar. May be hard to say definitively as not very complete.

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for the info on the mammoth tooth , I am going to be back looking for pieces this winter , are the crag deposits exposed just off the beach ?

[@johnstewart439]

I am afraid I don't remember the site. I would think it is unlikely that it was washed up but who knows. There are various crag deposits along the East Anglian coast - Red, Coralline and Weybourne crags.

[@ryziemac2146]

I reakon straight tusked elephant on your last oneeee. Niceeeee findssssssss. Soon to be a axe I reakonnnnnnnn. Good luckkkkk

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for the ID Ryzie , fingers crossed for the hand axe one day 👍

[@ryziemac2146]

@@Treasurehunter11001 yea looks like the start or ending depend which way u look at it of the straight tusked elephant. Not 100 per cent but nice findddddd. Happy hunting

[@ryziemac2146]

If u have a email I could send ya a few of mine I have found. Three insitu. And some others on beach.

[@fossil-freak_tom]

congrats...

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks Tom

[@kam7005]

Wow!

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks Kam!

[@diggingappalachia954]

Finally found a spot with some ferns, was just starting to get into some & ran out of daylight. Hope all is well

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thats great news Jesse, things ok here 5 days into a 14 day shift at work .

[@diggingappalachia954]

Wow, that sounds terrible... I quit my job in Pennsylvania & took off to our place in South Carolina.. lots of gem mining in the Carolinas

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Yeah its Savage

[@tylowren2005]

I really want to go there

[@tylowren2005]

Are you selling any?

[@tylowren2005]

Are you going to go back anytime soon?

[@tylowren2005]

I wouldn’t mind purchasing a mammoth tooth shard from Norfolk as I only live down on the South coast

[@Treasurehunter11001]

Thanks for watching Tylo whereabouts on the South Coast are you ?

[@tylowren2005]

@@Treasurehunter11001 on the mainland across from the Isle of Wight

[@tylowren2005]

So are you willing to sell some woolly mammoth tooth fragments you’ve collected at a decent price?

[@Treasurehunter11001]

I can send you two pieces free , i don't feel like I want to charge you money for them

[@tylowren2005]

@@Treasurehunter11001 that would be great 👍

[@tylowren2005]

@@Treasurehunter11001 thanks so much

[@Treasurehunter11001]

@@tylowren2005 I am away at work right now will be back at home on the 23rd March I will try and sort it out then

[@tylowren2005]

@@Treasurehunter11001 thank you

[@johnbaxter4769]

Breaking rocks with a claw hammer!! Should not be used and doesn’t set a very good example.

[@Treasurehunter11001]

I don't really see a problem with it