Wild boar skull excavated from prehistoric deposits at Stainsby.

  I excavated this piece along side Bos & Cervid bones I first thought it just to be a domestic pig skull, I now know it to be from a wild boar. This piece as with all other finds on this blog was reported to http://www.teesarchaeology.com/  with no response !  I can find no other record of wild boar fossils being excavated in the south west of Cleveland.

 1 - The Excavation

 2 - Finds

 3 - Note how long the snout is and the low profile of the cranium.

 4 The link below shows other sub fossils from the same deposits. 

 http://historyofabeck.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/stainsby-ancient-lake-bed-excavated.html  

Clevelands Stainsby Iron age deposits possible ritual conection to the exposed Cleveland Dyke

  1 - Black = Small Equus pelvic piece.  Red = Right Raidius piece Bos or very lage Cervid  Yellow = Right Maxilla Boss   Orange = Metatarsal Ovis - Capra  Blue = preserved wood & Unknown. 

  2 - Maxilla piece after excavation.

 3 - Maxilla after a wash

4 - I can only say its either Bos or very large Cervid it was excavated very close to the huge Cervid antler and skull piece earlier.

 5 - Morphology

 6 - 7  Unknown radius piece

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 8 - Small Equus pelvic piece with as all the preserved bones in these  deposits no sign of butchery

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 12 - I  now believe that the stones found with the preserved bones must be connected i.e. were deposited by the same Humans that deposited the animal and Human remains. I still have not come across any metal items nor any signs that metal was deposited with the preserved bones and artefact's

This leads me to believe the grey deposits are of a considerable prehistoric age, also the fact that the Cleveland dyke could well have been exposed at this point, even possibly rising from the water makes me consider the dyke could have been the focus of a Prehistoric ritual centre here.

The image below was taken at an earlier stage of my work on these deposits, the partially excavated bone outlined in orange is a human tibia shaft, with a partially excavated mandible outlined in red, I found many more animal bones in this part of the deposit,

 

The links below show more of the excavated bone & artefacts from the lake bed deposits.

HISTORY OF A BECK: Fossil antler from a huge red deer ( Cervus ...

 Human and animal fossil bones found so far at Stainsby beck location

Prehistoric Human tibia shaft excavated from grey ... - history of a beck

Possibly the oldest preserved shoe in Britain excavated at Thornaby

 (Stainsby beck) ancient lake deposit more excavated bones 

HISTORY OF A BECK: Stainsby ancient lake deposits latest

Fossil antler from a huge red deer ( Cervus Elaphus )

 1 - As reported earlier i excavated this red deer antler piece from ancient lake deposits on Teesside ( Cleveland ) i have now had time to do basic but necesery work on the piece to preserve it.  The size of the deer that once held this antler must have been a giant, the estemated lenght of the complete antler is 130cm long, the burr diamater is 9 to 10 cm and it weighs 3 kg

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 3 - Over 15 cm from the second tine to the third.

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 6 - The measurments to the rear of the skull mach Megolaceros pliectocien cervids unearthed in russia

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 8 - Note the thickness of the skull

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Please use the link below to view more regarding the lake deposits


HISTORY OF A BECK: Stainsby ancient lake deposits latest

 10 - This image show modern red deer antlers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mesolithic fire stater or grinding platform

 1- Note the smaller holes i have no idea why they were aded but added they were. The piece measures 200mm longest - 90mm deepest - 170mm widest the larger hole has 30mm diameter.

 2 - This piece was picked from Marton west beck at fairy dell, a collaps of the grvel beds close by.

 3 - Please use the links below to see other artefacts from the Stainton gravel beds.

 Mesolithic tools and carved bones from the Stainton gravel beds

HISTORY OF A BECK: The Stainton gravel beds





 

Superficial deposits at Stainsby beck

 1- A  simple outlined image of the deposits being excavated, Black = Alluvium  -  Red = Gravel seam  - White = The start of the lake deposits.  

 2 - White = The lake deposits - Black =  The stoneless Alluvium deposit above.

 The 1.5 metres of Alluvium that covers these deposits has no visible stone content, and most certainly has not been disturbed since it was deposited, there are no recorded papers that explain these alluvium deposits, although there are recent reports that the possible tidal wave that looks to have hit the North east coast over 8.000 ybp . after the collapse of the last land bridge between Britain and mainland Europe, could possibly be the source of the vast water flow that would be needed to cover the land here with the amount of stoneless Alluvium that now covers it 
 

Equus crainum & radius before excavation from Prehistoric deposits at Stainsby beck

  1 - The Equus cranium piece is highlighted in yellow.

  2 - Sorry the pic ain't great but the Equus radius is outlined in yellow.

  3 The link below shows other sub fossils from this deposit.

Please use the links below to view more reports regarding the lake deposits.

  More of the huge prehistoric Cervus Elephus antler ... - history of a beck

HISTORY OF A BECK: Stainsby ancient lake deposits latest

Prehistoric pottery sherds with preserved food remains

  1 I have been informed by http://www.teesarchaeology.com/ that these pieces are iron age onwards, no iron or other related artefacts have been excavated ?
 

  2 What I believe to be preserved food remains
 

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Please use the link below to view more reports regarding the lake deposits.

HISTORY OF A BECK: Stainsby ancient lake deposits latest





 

Maltby clay deposits

  1 - The Stainton gravel bed is outlined in black, with the Alluvium above.

 

  2 - The strange brightly coloured clays partly uncovered.

 

  3 - The grey organic layer that sits above the gravel bed and below the alluvium.

  4 - Mercia mudstone amongst the brightly coloured hard clay deposits.

  5 - The grey organic layer is outlined in black, with the gravel bed below, the start of the maroon clay is marked by the trowel.

  6 The maroon clay deposit that sits beneath the gravel bed at all locations is outlined in black.

  7 - Top - red clay deposit then blue clay deposit then maroon clay deposit.

  8 - The blue clay deposit is outlined in black, with the red deposit above and maroon deposit below.

 

  9 - When I first discovered these deposits a few years ago I was amazed by there almost animated appearance, I still am ! 

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 11 - The approximate position of the Stainton gravel bed at this location, with the alluvium above. 

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  13- I believe the thin brightly coloured hard clays must have some relation to the Mercia mudstone deposits.

 14 After a recent visit to another deep beck valley location ime now sure that this sequence of thin brightly coloured clays spreads at least three miles to the east of this Maltby beck location under the same superficial orderly deposits.
the Mesolithic Stainton gravel beds of south west ... - history of a beck

 HISTORY OF A BECK: Maltby deposits


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