Fossill slabs

1 - Stainton gravel bed fossils

 

 

2- The piece above i believe could be trace fossils of stromatolites.

 

 

3- The rest apeare to be Jurassic slabs containing mainly Gryphaea.

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7- The piece above is strange it i first thought was a worn ammonite, but ime not so sure now, and the fact its made up of other fossils has me puzzled.

The magnetic rocks and bones of south west Cleveland

1- Jet black mineral as yet unidentified it is attracted to none rare earth magnets, resistant to very high temperatures.

 

 

2 Video of a visit to a section of Cleveland dyke in Teesdale. Sorry for the quality of the video's but the conditions were not great.

 

 

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4 - Cobble worked from the Cleveland dyke at Stainton quarry, the none rare earth magnet sticks to the Basaltic andesite quite easily.

 

 

 

 

5- Large piece of whin stone not far from Stainton quarry, again the none rare earth magnet sticks easily.

 

 

6- As yet unidentified piece

 

 

7- Left over stone at the Stainton quarry site, all of the rocks easily attracted none rare earth magnets.

 

 

 

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ugSxUOfzvYg

 

 

.8 - Excavated rock from the The Stainton gravel beds  Ime sure its Whinstone but am not sure what has caused the indentations, but whenever i come across whinstone with these marks, it has a very strong attraction to none rare earth magnets

9- 11  This piece is strange, Excavated from  The Stainton gravel beds

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12 Excavated from  The Stainton gravel beds

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16- These curb stones run along the Boothem area of Central York, all i tested were attracted to the rare earth magnet shown, i did not have a none rare earth magnet with me, but would gamble one would easily stick,as ime sure these stones originated from one of the quarry's in The south west area of Cleveland.

17 - 18 show an experiment i carried out, please click the link for more info and images Magnetic horse bone 

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19 Another experiment.

 

 

 

 

 

Human tibia shaft

This image shows a human tibia shaft still in the a Stainton gravel beds.

The tibia shaft above has been reported to Tees archaeology who can no longer help as they have had there funding suspended by Middlesbrough council.

It was excavated from the Stainton gravel beds, and i believe it is human. Ive also been to the police, and Dorman museum the police could not help and ime still awaiting a response from dorman museum middlesbrough.   I now know this to be a human tibia shaft there are updated posts.

The image above shows a human tibia shaft excavated from a more famous site, that was taken a lot more seriously than my finds!

Please remember the piece of bone in the first two images was excavated over 2 metres into packed and previously undisturbed deposits ive been informed are proberbly 20,000 years +

 

 

Sorry forgot to update this old post, the tibia shaft is indeed Human it was identified by an anthropologist on behalf of Cleveland police

Bone finds kell gate Staianton.

Thie pic above show one of the horse femur's before being extracted from the red clay.

The pic above shows the cleaned bones, all found in the same area of red clay at Kell gate Staintin, just up stream from the structure.

The pic above shows most ofthe bones still tightly embedded into the stonles aluvial red clay.