SORRY FOR THE ADVERTS I EARN NOTHING FROM THEM AND HOPE WITH HELP I CAN GET RID OF THEM SOON. 

New inspection of the Stainsby beck sacrificial site 14 years later. I must apologise for the very long delay but ive had family priorities to take care of, but i will be revisiting this site in the summer of 2025.

 This Easter holidays after 12 years i am returning to the Stainsby beck area where over 15 years i have excavated many ancient bones and artefacts, including human bones, from what is in my mind most certainly a prehistoric sacrificial site related to the exposure of the Cleveland Dyke.   My findings after many floods will be posted soon after my visit.  The two images below show the huge Cervus Elephus Antler piece and it excavation at the site from 12 years ago.  

Ancient Viking Cleveland

 

  Cleveland’ is often mistakenly thought to be a modern invention. This confusion is due to the short-lived ‘County of Cleveland’ that existed for only 22 years (1974-1996) and included the former County Durham towns of Stockton; Hartlepool and Billingham to the north of the Tees. 

The real, historic Cleveland is on the south side of the Tees and encompasses the valleys of the River Esk and River Leven and along the coast it stretches from the Tees to Whitby, and very likely in its early naming by the Angles included all of the high ground north of  Eoforwic

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 The earliest known record of its name is in the twelfth century Orkneyinga Saga, recalling King Harald Hardrada of Norway’s landing in ‘Cliffland but Cleveland was named long before this date, Julia's Cesar named the Angles being present in the area before his partial occupation of Britain. 

 Guisborough : Capital of Cleveland Guisborough is perhaps a Viking name: ‘the borough or fortified place belonging to a Viking called Gigr’, but this is not certain. Evidence from place-names in the surrounding Cleveland area show that Viking settlement was very extensive, perhaps to the extent that no other area of England compares.

 Cleveland - Cliffland from old Norse was named by the Angles early Danish Vikings from what we now know as Central Denmark and Southern Sweden who were paid mercenaries of Rome until they turned on them in the North very likely from what would be their homeland on the Cleveland escarpment, then sent for there people across the North sea who would later name Angland - England.