Equus mandible excavated

  1 I excavated an Equus mandible at the weekend sadly the mandible bone disintegrated during the dig, leaving a full set of teeth including incisors, i also found the two equus metatarsals in the same area.

  2 The cervid metatarsal shown in images 2 and 3 and 4 was found not far away.

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More fossil bone excavated from my main excavation.

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 The black line shows the bones still buried in the undisturbed deposit.

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The bones are shown within the yellow circle, with the gravel bed just below. 

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The bone location in this image is shown within the red circle, the gravel beds are outlined in yellow just below. 

  4 - The bone at first looked fragile, but after a wash and rub i found it to be heavy and hard, also it has the usual very high shine.
 

  5 The bone is part of the distal end of an as yet unknown scapula.

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  8 - These two rib pieces were excavated close to the scapula piece, again they have the high shine.

 9 - This up to date view shows the gravel bed and the undisturbed deposits above.

 

 

 10 - This image shows the gravel bed outlined in yellow, and the red - brown plastic clay below outlined in red.

 

 

 11 - This image shows the gravel bed outlined in red, then two suspended gravel pockets outlined in yellow in the stoneless sandy deposit above, then the stoneless alluvium above the black outline.

 

 

 

Auroch metatarsal

  1 The Metatarsal on the left is huge.

  2  It belonged to a Bos that was at least 1.600 mm withers hight

  3 It measures 72 mm widest, 37 mm thickest, and looks to have been between 270 - 300 mm long .

  4 The bone wall is thicker than any long bone ive ever found averaging 15mm thick.

This bone is impressive in lengh and robustness, and matches some of the largest Auroch and Bison priscus metacarpals ive viewed,  yet i have noticed that there is so much disagreement between different researchers both in the past and present,  that i personally believe only carbon dating or excavations showing that there was no probability of a settled human contact,  can determine whether ancient fossil bovine bones are from totally wild free animals, and not interfered with by early humans

 

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. 

 

Locations of Stainsby finds

Locations of excavations of the stainton gravel beds

Fossil bone and artifact excavated to date from - history of a beck

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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.





 

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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