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6 - I also excavated this piece of black flint from deep into the deposit, i don't know a lot about worked flint but this piece could have been.
7 - I am sure Tees archaeology will know one way or the other and will post there opinion .
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The Stainsby collection to date .
The image above shows the fossil bone and artefacts excavated to date from the prehistoric grey deposits at stainsby beck, in the south west of Cleveland North East England . The Human tibia shaft is not shown as its not in my possession any more , as it was handed over to the Anthropologist, as were the other Human bone finds from this area .
Human and animal fossil bones found so far at ... - history of a beck
The bone and artefacts excavated to date include bones from at least one Human , and seven different animals including , Capra , Equus , Bovine , Canis , Cervid , Pottery ime told that looks to be iron age , Preserved leather shoe sole , with intricate stich holes and possible bone decoration , and possibly worked black flint . All can be viewed in earlier posts .
I must stress that the mineralised bones found and excavated in this and other areas , including several Human pieces are ancient ! and have been deemed so by a forensic anthropologist from Teesside university .
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 .
