This is the full assemblage to date of excavated bone and artefacts, including a preserved leather shoe sole, pottery, and utilised bone and wood, from the grey lake bed deposits at Stainsby beck Thornaby on Tees Cleveland. Tees Archaeology have been informed of all finds. The Human tibia shaft excavated from this deposit is not shown but can be viewed by clicking the link below.
1 - This piece of mineralised wood was excavated from the ancient lake bed deposits at Stainsby beck.
2 - It was excavated very close to the latest bone and pottery finds.
3 - The mineralised wood like most stone and bone found in the south west area of Cleveland is magnetic, this phenomena has been reported many times to Geologists by myself. 
4 - The thicker veins seem to be totally mineralised, calcite maybe. I believe this wood was utilised, before it ended up with the bones and artefact's also found.
1 - All excavated bone including one piece of pottery.
2 - Equus scapula piece before being fully excavated. 
2a - Excavation 
3 - Another utilised bone
4 - 8 Pottery rim piece hopefully I will get the dating from Tees Archaeology using this piece.
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8 - All of the pottery pieces found strongly attract a rare earth magnet, as with most minerals and bone found in this area, it must contain some kind of magnetite. 
9 - 10 Capra Ovis horn.
10 - This horn seems large for iron age early or late.
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2 The long crystal is about 5mm long 0.5mm mm wide .
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1 These pieces were picked from a beck near the river Leven , near Yarm in Cleveland .
2 Note the fossil content of the Septerean nodule. 
3 The radius with ulna still attached is in very good condition with no signs of butchery, or attention from scavengers.
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1 - excavation site .
2 The days first find Horse mandible piece .
3 The last piece excavated was approximately 3 metres into the deposit .
4 The red outline shows today's area of excavation .
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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 . 
7 - 12 Young horse mandible piece .
8 - The erupting teeth show this horse was young .
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10 - Incisors 
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 .
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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 . 
15 - Again ime not sure that the marks on this scapula piece were caused by chewing . .
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 .
1 - This image shows a young bos molar before excavation .
2 - This image shows how far into the Prehistoric deposits the tooth was excavated from .
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4 - All of today's excavated pieces. 
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6 - Note the magnets stuck tight to the stone ? in the centre of the image outlined in red .
