Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Mesolithic Horse metatarsal excavated from the Stainton gravel beds
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Equus skull piece from Stainsby beck Thornaby on Tees Cleveland .
1 Note the top of the eye socket is not fully formed.
This horse skull piece is from the lake bed deposits at Stainsby beck.
Many mammals have a small supra-orbital foramen just above the eye socket which communicates from the outside surface of the skull above the orbit to the interior of the orbital cavity. Sometimes this foramen fails to fully form, and is open to the edge of the orbital rim, as in your horse.
The explanation above is from Richard White a Palaeontologist from Tucson in the United States, a trusted friend and advisor.
This horse skull piece is from the lake bed deposits at Stainsby beck.
Many mammals have a small supra-orbital foramen just above the eye socket which communicates from the outside surface of the skull above the orbit to the interior of the orbital cavity. Sometimes this foramen fails to fully form, and is open to the edge of the orbital rim, as in your horse.
The explanation above is from Richard White a Palaeontologist from Tucson in the United States, a trusted friend and advisor.
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Mesolithic tools and carved bones from the Stainton gravel beds.
HISTORY OF A BECK: The Stainton gravel beds
HISTORY OF A BECK: Storregga slides Stunami theory
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Mesolithic worked flint excavated from the Stainton gravel beds.
This piece of Mesolithic black worked flint was excavated recently from the tightly packed Stainton gravel beds at Stainton Beck, along with minerals and preserved mammal rib bone fragments, and much older Jurassic Fossils.
3 The flint piece was excavated to the bottom right hand side of the spade, along with mammal rib bone fragments.
9 I have recently been informed by Peter Row of Tees Archaeology that this piece was probably a scraper, the link below was supplied by Peter.
5 - The advice Ive been given so far points to there being little doubt, that this piece is a finely worked flint tool.
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