Equus Mandible & Scapula excavated from the same deposit ( Stainsby beck Thornaby on Tees )

 1 Bone found deep into the deposit at Stainsby beck, note the Whinstone from the near by Cleveland dyke.

  2 The Equus Mandible is just vissible 4 0 clock from the red tool handle, the deposit is covered by packed gravel bed at this location about 500mm thick.

  3 Washed and dried.

  4 This 2 square metre deposit has now yielded a Human Parietal skull bone, 2 different horse mandibles, and a very large Cervid antler and skull piece.

  5 Note the mineralisation and lack of bit damage, as ive stated before nearly all of the Equus mandibles in my collection, show no signs of the use of a bit, i.e. Periostitis or irregular tooth wear.   

  6  Equus Scapula

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Cervus Elephus antler piece Equus Mandible and Human parietal skull bone, excavated from Prehistoric deposits at Stainsby beck .

 1-Mineralised Cervus Elephus antler piece, Equus mandible and Human parietal skull bone.

  2 - This piece belonged to a huge Cervid with an antler height of around 45 inches.

  3 - It was excavated alongside this Equus mandible piece.

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  5 - 7  Prehistoric Human Parietal skull bone.

  6 - Note the condition of this piece, it has been washed and dried nothing more.

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  1Excavated Cervus Comparison with a large Bos skull piece this was a big Bambi !.

Prehistoric Human tibia shaft excavated from grey deposit at

Ammonite pieces & blue green mineral from the Stainton gravel beds.

 1- Large ammonite section 120mm x 80mm x 80mm.

  2 - This fragment was from a much bigger ammonite, i would say this would have been about 150mm wide.

  3- What looks to be Coral.

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  4 -Blue Green mineral.

  5 - I first thought this to be Turquoise, but it seems to soft, it is very much like chalk.

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  8 I  now know this piece to be Malachite .

 9 - 11 Unknown Bivalve

 10 - Belemnite section.

 11 - All of the above came from just a small section of the Stainton gravel beds.

HISTORY OF A BECK: The Stainton gravel beds

Clevlands Triassic Mercia mudstone slabs descovered containing fossil sand ripples.

  1 - I can find no reference to other finds like these in the rare Mercia mudstone exposures of the Cleveland area. 

  2 - I have informed Geological groups, but still await a reply.

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  9 - There is a possibility that these cracks contain some type of fossils, i.e. there are some very strange and intricate shapes in there. 

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 HISTORY OF A BECK: The Triassic Mercia mudstone of Stainsby beck

Recrystallized Sponge & Coral

  1 - This piece i believe is Recrystallised sponge.

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  5 - This larger piece i believe is recrystallized Coral.

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  9 - The pieces seem to be made up of Calcite, a lot of crystals are clearly visible.

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  12  I now believe the crystals are part of an Aragonite recrystallisation process that basically involves the mineral soaking into the original limestone, and replacing it.     
Nodules and minerals from the Mesolithic gravel ... - history of a beck