HORSE TOOTH

I dug this from deep within the gravel bed above Stainton beck.

Its a horse upper molar

Maltby clay Deposits

Ive now cleared the gravel bed, and have noticed it is interrupted by a stoneless deposit, it can be seen to the right of the spade handle.

There is the same intrusion by the same type of deposit in the gravel bed a km east at Stainton beck.

This image does not exaggerate the colours if anything it does not do them justice.

This is a close up of the deposit that intrudes the gravel bed, there is another separate blue layer above then the dry hard packed friable red brown loamy clay that lays above everything in this area.

Close up of the gravel bed with the dark red clay below, i now am sure this gravel bed is part of what i have now named the Stainton gravel beds.

Close up of the intruding sand deposit.

The intruding deposit can be seen to the right of the spade handle.

The lower thin clay layers look like there painted with gloss, the image really doesn't do them justice.

More can be viewed regarding the Stainton gravel beds by clicking the link below

The Stainton gravel beds


The link below shows the locations of  known Stainton gravel bed deposits.


 http://goo.gl/maps/fBft6

Maltby beck deposits

This is were i first noticed the deposits.

After scraping away the stuff shrouding the deposits, i could make out that i had the same sequence of deposits as at Stainton beck about a km to the east.

There seems to be at least 7 different layers in this excavation and as at Stainton the gravel bed is rich in fossils.

The gravel bed can be seen above the spade handle with the red-brown deposit above as at Stainton.

This red-orange deposit was a surprise Ive not come across it before, at least not in this state.This pic shows the sequence of deposits including a thin layer of blue clay below the red orange deposit.