Monday, 25 March 2013

New prehistoric finds Stainsby beck

  1 - deeper into  the prehistoric  grey deposit .
  2 - Prehistoric horse metacarpal .
  3 - Note how deep into the deposit the metacarpal is situated , the Human tibia shaft shown in earlier posts  was excavated about a metre to the left .
  4 - 5  Canis incisor
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Rhizocretion  containing crystals possibly Aragonite .
 
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Friday, 22 March 2013

Another Mesolithic gravel bed deposit uncovered at Stainton

 1 - The red outline shows the newly excavated gravel bed at stainton , again the bed is about 300mm deep very compact and very level .
 
 
 2 - The red outline I hope shows how compact and flat the stainton gravel beds are .

 3 -  Again I hope the red outline in this image shows uniformity of these ancient gravel beds .

 4 - As shown in many previous posts the widespread Stainton gravel beds are far from erratic deposits , and cover every area of south west Cleveland I have excavated .

 5 - The yellow outlines show the ever present grey - blue organic deposit that sits above the gravel beds at all locations .

 6 - A close up of the blue - grey deposit .
 

Monday, 18 March 2013

Excavated Prehistoric flint from ancient lake deposit Stainsby beck Cleveland.

 1  I could be wrong but I believe this flint that was excavated from the same grey deposit as the bones and leather reported in earlier posts , was very likely used as a fire starting implement .
 
 
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3 This image shows a similar piece note the angles and percussion marks .