Allowed
Folly Beach
South Carolina, Charleston·Fossil hunting
Shark teeth can be collected on the City of Folly Beach strand with no permit, but county rules bar removing materials at both county-run ends of the island.
- No permit to pick up fossil shark teeth on the city beach, from the dry sand down through the wet sand exposed on a falling tide
- State jurisdiction starts at the mean low-water mark. Collecting fossils from the bottom below that line requires a SCIAA Hobby License, which allows hand pickup only and no tools, digging or sifting.