The Visual Hikers Guide on TikTok revealed that it is not only fossils and sea glass that can be found hidden in the sands, but also shark teeth.
She said that the unlikely treasures can be discovered along the beach, with the best time to look for them being “right after a storm or when the waves have been wild”.
In the video, she scours Bracklesham Bay, near Selsey, with an extendable fork, sifting the teeth from the sand.
She said she has “only really looked in West Sussex along the coast south of Chichester”.
In a video, the Visual Hikers Guide said: “Did you know you can hunt for shark teeth along the south coast of England?
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“The best time to look is right after a storm or when the waves have been wild. That’s when the sea stirs them up from the sea bed.
“I like to bring my trusty extendable fork, you know the kind that makes you feel like a beach detective?
“But you do have to be quick catching these shark teeth because half the time it feels like the sea is chasing me back up the beach.”
She added that it is easy to mistake bits of seaweed for shark teeth and that they are black, rather than white, due to being fossilised.
The tooth belonged to a Polyacrodus brevicostatus, which lived in the Cretaceous period.
Mr Hiscocks would not reveal the location of the find.
He said: “It has taken me many hours, actually weeks, to find one of these.
“But all the time you are searching this bone bed material you are constantly making fresh finds, so the more you search, the more you increase your chances of finding something special like this tooth.”