Mesolithic tools and carved bones from the Stainton gravel beds.

 

 1 - I found this worked stone about 3 years ago in Stainton beck, I am certain it was washed from the gravel beds, I believe it was some sort of shaft smoother. 

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 8 - If ime honest I can not remember the beck location I found this piece, at first I paid it little attention, thinking it just to be a worn Equus Metatarsal but I now know it to either have been a tool of some sort or a religious or symbolic artifact. The lighter coloured material is actually preserved wood, that has been inserted into the bone.

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 11- 14 This piece I found very close to the stone tool in the first images, I found these pieces a long time ago before I had started any excavating, but have never been in any doubt that they were tools of some sort.

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 15 - 19 Digging tools

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 20 - 22 Carved bone .

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 23 - Carved Artefact

  

 23 - Digging tools found at the Orme bronze age copper mines in Wales.

 

 

 24 a - Fire starter ?

 

 

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 26 a -  More worked bone

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HISTORY OF A BECK: The Stainton gravel beds

    HISTORY OF A BECK: Storregga slides Stunami theory


 

Mesolithic worked flint excavated from the Stainton gravel beds.

This piece of Mesolithic black worked flint was excavated recently from the tightly packed Stainton gravel beds at Stainton Beck, along with minerals and preserved mammal rib bone fragments, and much older Jurassic Fossils.

 1 The Stainton gravel beds are outlined in red.

 2 The Alluvium is outlined in orange.

3 The flint piece was excavated to the bottom right hand side of the spade, along with mammal rib bone fragments.

 4 The gravel beds again average 300 mm thick.

 

 5 - The advice Ive been given so far points to there being little doubt, that this piece is a finely worked flint tool.

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 8 - This image shows what must surly be a worked edge.

 9 I have recently been informed by Peter Row of Tees Archaeology that this piece was probably a scraper, the link below was supplied by Peter.

http://www.teesarchaeology.com/downloads/documents/Roman_Booklet.pdf

 

 

Horse metatarsal excavated from the Stainton gravel beds 

 

Vein Quartz excavated from the Stainton gravel beds

  1- I have now been reliably informed by members of the Mindat forum that this piece is Vein Quartz with Quartz crystals.

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