Monday 11 February 2013

Contents of sieved lake deposits from Stainsby beck Cleveland

  1 - 4  Very small Frog bones


 
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  4 including vertebrae
 5 Preserved seeds maybe celtis ?

 
  6 Nut shells and fruit stem
   7 Preserved wood

 
 8 Snail shells the clay is packed with these things

 
  9 The stone content is very small and uniformed in type. 

 

 



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Thursday 31 January 2013

New finds stainsby beck


  All the new mineralised bone findes were found close to the site of the earlier Human bone findes.
  1- 4 Calcaneus  ( ankle bone ) probably Bos.
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 5 - 6 Mandible Bos or cervid note the blue teeth.
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  7 Unknown thoracic vertebrae.
  8 - Mandible piece
  9 - 10 Horse metatarsal, like a lot i find without a scratch on it !
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  11 Metatarsal  ( unknown )
 12 - 13 Scapula piece probably cervid
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  14  I think this is a worn Astrogalas.
  15 Canis mandible probably fox.





 
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Tuesday 22 January 2013

Reindeer radius ?

 1 I have tried to identify this radius piece, the best i can say at the moment is it is not bos or horse and the closest ive came to a cervidae match is Reindeer.
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Monday 21 January 2013

New findes from the leven bank area of south west Cleveland

  1 Unknown Artiodactyle mandible
  2 The tooth morphology does not seem to match bos.
  3 The muscle cavity is very deep. I now believe this Mandible piece could have belonged to a huge extinct cervidae.
  4 Large bos femur
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  6
  7 Bos rib ?
  8 Unknown rib
 
 8 - 10  Horse radius from two different animals, found very close together i find this a lot in all deep beck locations, sometimes 3 or 4 different horses bones found very close together, with no attention from humans the elements or predators.
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  11 - 13  Unknown thoracic vertebrae
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 14 -  18  Unknown thoracic vertebrae.
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