Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Viking Cleveland
Ancient Cleveland
The first raids by the Vikings on the north east coast are recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as being 793 AD at Lindisfarne, the circumstances surrounding this early raid have in all probability been stretched far beyond the truth.
In my mind similar to the way the Wolf earned its bad reputation i.e. it was only ever guilty of being what it was a wolf ! .
My reason for mentioning the earliest recorded raid at Lindisfarne, is to show that the raid was long before the Vikings inhabited what we now know as York. The Vikings occupied York Jorvik in 865 AD, after a large Danish Viking army had landed in East Anglia.
Vikings were acquainted with the North East coast of England, and the land beyond ( Cleveland ) long before York was named after 865 AD , and almost certainly gave Cleveland its name during there earliest raids .
Cleveland as far as I can make out either translates land of rolling hills or Cliff land, I personally opt for the latter, but this is another jigsaw that needs solving. Regardless of which translation is correct, it seems the Viking named area of ancient Cleveland, must be far older than the English named area called Yorkshire . Therefore making Cleveland possibly the oldest surviving Viking named area in England.
This map shows no reference to the North Riding of Yorkshire, but does title the ancient Cleveland area .
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https://historyofabeck.blogspot.com/2018/03/cleveland-ohios-links-to-ancient.html
Monday, 8 April 2013
Rhizocretion and Aragonite crystals
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Richard White, International Wildlife Museum, vertebrate paleontologist , in the warm hole to the rear !
The man to the rear has advised me for two years or more , I believe without this mans continued support I may have given up my research long ago cheers Rich ! note the bison skull to the right of Rich .
Friday, 29 March 2013
(Stainsby beck) 29 , 3 ,13 Prehistoric excavation
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Prehistoric lake bed deposits and excavated bone & pot including an Auroch scapular
1 - This image shows the latest prehistoric bones and pottery piece excavated from the grey deposits at Stainsby beck south west Cleveland in the north east of England .
2 - This image is a close up of what I am sure has to be a scapula piece from an extinct Auroch ( Bos Premigenius ) . I have been advised the Pottery is late iron age to Roman, but no Roman breeds were this big nor local Longifrons wild or semi domesticated.
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