Sunday 30 October 2011

Mandible excavated from Stainton gravel beds.

















My Daughter found this jaw fragment from a new dig in a section of packed gravel 5 metres east of my main dig at Stainton, at the moment i can not identify it. The teeth don't match bovine horse or cervidae that i have or have viewed. The radius i believe could be from the same animal? it apeares to be cervidae?

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

Sunday 23 October 2011

Flint ( burrow ) Nodule

I found this recently how and why it was among the magnetic whinstone i am studying at the moment i have no idea.
And i state now it was not excavated from the Stainton gravel beds !
 


The nodule has a rough outer texture but has razor sharp edges!


I am told these burrow nodules usually contain fossils but flint is new to me , and at the moment i don't quite know what to look for !?




I think its a beautiful piece almost alien in appearance.

Septarian Nodule dug from the Stainton gravel beds...


 
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Saturday 15 October 2011

New deposits uncovered shrouding the Stainton gravel beds.


These are the latest deposits uncovered at Stainton with the red clay bottom then gravels, then an organic layer.


There is what i believe to be a natural spring shown to the left.
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Friday 14 October 2011

More Andesite (whinstone) that atracts a magnet

I discovered this whinstone today it has been used as a bridge in two locations over a drainage channel just south of the larchfield community, there's a 16 inch pipe under the stone so i imagine it was done in the early to mid 20th century, probably with left over mined whinstone from the Stainton area.
All the stone in the image attracted the magnet shown stuck to the whinstone block above the pipe.
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