1 - excavation site .
2 The days first find Horse mandible piece .
3 The last piece excavated was approximately 3 metres into the deposit .
4 The red outline shows today's area of excavation .
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6 - The horse mandible piece below was excavated approximately 200 mm further into the deposit still buried behind the partially excavated bones shown in this image .
7 - 12 Young horse mandible piece .
8 - The erupting teeth show this horse was young .
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10 - Incisors
11- This piece was excavated over two metres further into the deposit , from the ancient Human tibia shaft , shown being excavated in an earlier post .
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13 - This image shows all the pieces excavated today , they include two horse mandible pieces Capra - ovis horn cores - scapula piece - rib piece - metacarpal piece - bovine mandible piece .
14 - I am not sure whether the groves on this metacarpal are a result of Canis
chewing or human use .
15 - Again ime not sure that the marks on this scapula piece were caused by chewing . .
16 - I have now had advice from a well respected professional from the United States , that back my own thoughts up about this piece , i.e. the marks are too long too parallel and too regular too be chew marks . I believe this to be a tool of some sort maybe a winding device . Peter Row of Tees Archaeology has viewed these images and thinks they could possibly be wear marks caused by some type of twine .
1 - excavation site .
2 The days first find Horse mandible piece .
3 The last piece excavated was approximately 3 metres into the deposit .
4 The red outline shows today's area of excavation .
5 
6 - The horse mandible piece below was excavated approximately 200 mm further into the deposit still buried behind the partially excavated bones shown in this image . 
7 - 12 Young horse mandible piece .
8 - The erupting teeth show this horse was young .
9 
10 - Incisors 
11- This piece was excavated over two metres further into the deposit , from the ancient Human tibia shaft , shown being excavated in an earlier post .
12 
13 - This image shows all the pieces excavated today , they include two horse mandible pieces Capra - ovis horn cores - scapula piece - rib piece - metacarpal piece - bovine mandible piece .
14 - I am not sure whether the groves on this metacarpal are a result of Canis chewing or human use . 
15 - Again ime not sure that the marks on this scapula piece were caused by chewing . .
16 - I have now had advice from a well respected professional from the United States , that back my own thoughts up about this piece , i.e. the marks are too long too parallel and too regular too be chew marks . I believe this to be a tool of some sort maybe a winding device . Peter Row of Tees Archaeology has viewed these images and thinks they could possibly be wear marks caused by some type of twine .
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Please feel free to correct me on any part of my blog, i would also welcome any help that can be offered in correctly identifying some of my fossil finds All the best to all Heath.