Maltby beck excavation

This excavation shows the same sequence of deposits that have been exposed at Stainton beck, at roughly the same depth in relation to the surrounding land.

The image above shows how little soil cover there is above the aluvial deposit, less than 100 mm in places

The glove marks where the  deposit stops and the gravels start, then as in all my excavations the dense red clay below.

Bone excavated from Stainton gravel beds.

The first two images show the top of the gravel layer, the cup of tea was a suprise !

In this dig section there is a layer of packed sand about 100mm thick separating the Lacustrine layer from the gravels

This is the piece bone found in the packed sand above the gravels.

In these images the bone is still in some of the packed sand.

The bone after removing the sand and cleaned, it apeares to be part of a lumbar vertebrae.

The Cleveland dyke at Stainton village south west Middlesbrough.

I am now beginning to seriously believe the presence and location of the Cleveland dyke could have had a major effect on approaching ice sheets. I now think there is a possibility that the dyke could have acted as a defence against the destructive forces of the ice sheets on the geology present at the time, in the immediate vicinity of of the dyke.
I can now say with total confidence that at least the section of the Cleveland Dyke at Stainton Quarry in the south west area of Cleveland, is a strongly magnetic basaltic andasite that seems to act strangely to certain surfaces of a magnet
. And parts have been taken by what could only be ice and redistrebuted to the north and south of the line of the Cleveland Dyke, and the evidence can be found in the deep lying Stainton gravel beds, that streach from at least Stainton beck to Ormesby beck about 3 miles to the north east.
I also now strongly believe that any large or small rocks, whinstone or other to be found in the fields of this area of Cleveland origionated from the washed out  gravel beds, this i believe i can proove at least in the Stainton and Thornton area.