HISTORY OF A BECK

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Ancient sediments and Stainton gravel beds.

The lower red clay is at least 2 metres thick with no large rock present only sporadic blue clay with Carboniferous trace fossils

Note this is not boulder clay !

The layer of red clay below the gravels is very tightly packed and has the odd large rounded and un rounded rock lodged at its meeting with the gravel layer containing Jurassic fossils mostly Gryphaea.

The image above shows how what i think is alluvium had shrouded these older layers.

Outcrops of blue clay containing Carboniferous plant fossils found in the red lower clay.

View showing the rough depth to the surrounding land, but it does rise rapidly after the depth shown!

This pic shows how this bit of bank has actually already lost a lot of the soil and alluvium? that used to shroud the layers ime now exposing.

                    More can be viewed regarding the Stainton gravel beds by clicking the link below

                                                                  The Stainton gravel beds

Friday, 27 May 2011

New finds Bovine bones size and weights.

Bovine jaw measuring 365mm long 225mm highest weighing 750 grams

Bovine jaw measuring 340mm long 215mm highest weighing 700 grams

Bovine jaw measuring 350mm long 190mm highest weighing 750 grams

This bone i think is bovine and part of the rib cage?

Bovine radius and ulna top measuring380mm long ulna 95mm widest radius top 85mm widest bottom 80mm widest

Bovine radius and ulna measuring 360mm long ulna 90mm widest radius top 85mm widest bottom 75mm widest

Bovine? tibia measuring 340mm long 110mm widest weighing 875 grams

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Bovine Femur

Bovine Femur measuring 370mm long 140mm widest weighing 1250 grams

Old records of early findes

Bovine lumbar vertebrae measuring 270mm wide 140mm high weighing 275 grams

Bovine atlas vertebrae measuring 180mm wide 100 mm high weighing 300 grams

Bovine intact pelvis measuring 540mm by 560mm weighing 3300 grams

Bovine jaw measuring 380mm long 220mm highest weighing 1750 grams

Bovine scapula measuring 430mm long 260mm wide with quite a bit missing weighing 800 grams

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Ancient use of stone from the Cleveland dyke at Stainsby beck

I made an earlier post showing the Cleveland dyke at Stainsby beck in the south west Cleveland area, i now after further visits and research believe the stone was taken from this outcrop and used at least in the nearby area.
Ive found large amounts of the stone that seem to have been used as dams of some sort in at least four different locations, all upstream from the dyke exposure, I've found no historical reference to the dyke being utilized at this exposure point at Stainsby, so can only imagine it was a very long time ago.

I will be researching this area a lot more in the future as i believe it has a hidden and yet unknown history.

South West Cleveland's ancient deep beck valley deposits

I am now starting to believe that the deep beck valleys of the south Cleveland area have been utilised by ancient Humans, not just after there creation but during there creation , up to 17.000 ybp.

I have so far over a seven year period, excavated stone and bone tools,and preserved mammal bones including Human bone from the Stainton gravel beds.

Then excavated countless mammal bones including both bone and stone tools and pottery, and again Human bones excavated, from what looks to be ancient lakes created in these deep beck valleys, either for burial or sacrificial purposes.

historyofabeck.blogspot.com

A simple record of mineralized Mammal bones and older fossils and minerals, excavated and found after release by flood waters from the recently descovered Stainton gravel beds. I am growing in cofidence now that i am getting close to proving the superficial geology beneath the south west area of cleveland is not the jumbled up glacial mess it is stated to be. And that mammals that have been stated as absent at the time that the Stainton gravel beds were formed, were infact here along with Humans. I have also stumbled upon a phonomina concerning the magnetic attraction of the Cleveland dyke in the Stainton area. Posts concerning the Stainsby deposits are not related to the much older Stainton gravel beds.