Auroch metatarsal

  1 The Metatarsal on the left is huge.

  2  It belonged to a Bos that was at least 1.600 mm withers hight

  3 It measures 72 mm widest, 37 mm thickest, and looks to have been between 270 - 300 mm long .

  4 The bone wall is thicker than any long bone ive ever found averaging 15mm thick.

This bone is impressive in lengh and robustness, and matches some of the largest Auroch and Bison priscus metacarpals ive viewed,  yet i have noticed that there is so much disagreement between different researchers both in the past and present,  that i personally believe only carbon dating or excavations showing that there was no probability of a settled human contact,  can determine whether ancient fossil bovine bones are from totally wild free animals, and not interfered with by early humans

 

Contents of sieved lake deposits from Stainsby beck Cleveland

  1 - 4  Very small Frog bones


 

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  4 including vertebrae

 5 Preserved seeds maybe celtis ?

 

  6 Nut shells and fruit stem

   7 Preserved wood

 

 8 Snail shells the clay is packed with these things

 

  9 The stone content is very small and uniformed in type. 

 

Locations of Stainsby finds

Locations of excavations of the stainton gravel beds

Fossil bone and artifact excavated to date from - history of a beck

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New finds stainsby beck

  All the new mineralised bone findes were found close to the site of the earlier Human bone findes.

  1- 4 Calcaneus  ( ankle bone ) probably Bos.

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 5 - 6 Mandible Bos or cervid note the blue teeth.

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  7 Unknown thoracic vertebrae.

  8 - Mandible piece

  9 - 10 Horse metatarsal, like a lot i find without a scratch on it !

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  11 Metatarsal  ( unknown )

 12 - 13 Scapula piece probably cervid

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  14  I think this is a worn Astrogalas.

  15 Canis mandible probably fox.