Saturday 17 November 2012

Collection of excavated bone from my main dig into the stainton gravel beds, including human.

Please do not confuse these finds with the later Stainsby sacrificial clay deposit finds.  

All of these images show mineralised bone excavated directly from the Stainton gravel beds..1
 First four images unknown Humerus probably cervidae.


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The next six images show an unknown scapula piece.
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The next four images show an unknown bovine mandible piece.
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The next five images show an unknown femur piece
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The next five images show what i and others that have viewed it think is a very large cervidae humerus and ulna piece, note the cracks this piece seems to have been cracked due to the immense pressure it has been under.
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The next seven images show 2 artiodactiyla mandible pieces
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The next 3 images show either a bovidae or cervidae humerus
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The next three images show an unknown vertebrae
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The next three images show what i believe to be a carved mandible piece.
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The next three images show a piece from the back of an unknown skull the atlas vertebrae would be attached to this piece.
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The next image shows an unknown ulna piece that i believe shows a puncture mark created by the tooth of a predator.





The next two images show a horse tooth this piece was excavated i metre into the stainton gravel beds at maltby beck.
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The next image shows a bovine tooth excavated at the same maltby site.
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And last but not least the last image shows a Human tibia shaft excavated deep into the packed beds at my main dig at Stainton,    I also excavated Human skull fragments and an arm bone that i did not have time to photograph, the bones are now in the possession of the Cleveland police Anthropologist, please note all of these pieces have been washed and dried no more !
All of the pieces above were carefully excavated from deep into the packed previously undisturbed gravel beds