Stainton Quarry ( magnetic Whinstone)

This structure was built to mark the entrance to the old quarry, it has been transformed over the last 10 years into a very attractive nature reserve.

Most of the structure appears to be sand stone, but the stone in this image is a piece of the mined whinstone ( Basaltic Andesite) as with all the Whinstone boulders and cobbles and smaller pieces that remain in the quarry plantation, it attracts a magnet note the green, red, and pink magnets stuck to the stone. 

Radius possibly Cervidae

This radius was found at Maltby beck, during a search for the same Geological layers i have found in other areas of the south west area of Cleveland,

I did indeed find the same deposits, and low and behold then found this Radius sticking out of the clay just down stream from a Stainton gravel bed exposure !

This mineralised bone as ive explained before has been washed dried and rubbed a bit with a cloth nothing else !

Fossil content of a 3 metre square section of the Stainton gravel beds.

Some of the items I've recently excavated from a 3 metre square section of the Stainton gravel beds, averageing 300mm thick . They include mineralised mammal bones, a Septerian nodule, and various fossil rich rocks, all can be viewed in more detail in older posts.

 

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

 

 The Stainton gravel beds

Septarian Nodule dug from the Stainton gravel beds.

This piece was excavated from around 3 metres into the gravel bed just south of Stainton, there is lot of well preserved fossils on the surface.

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

Flint ( burrow ) Nodule         Fossill slabs