Wednesday 27 March 2013

Prehistoric lake bed deposits and excavated bone & pot including an Auroch scapular

  1 -  This image shows the latest prehistoric bones and pottery piece excavated from the grey deposits at Stainsby beck south west Cleveland in the north east of England .
  2 - This image is a close up of what I am sure has to be a scapula piece from an extinct Auroch  ( Bos Premigenius ) . I have been advised the Pottery is late iron age to Roman, but no Roman breeds were this big nor local Longifrons wild or semi domesticated.    
  3 - The pottery piece in this image is the third piece ive excavated and i am told it is probably early iron age , I believe it to be a lot older.

 

 

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Monday 25 March 2013

New prehistoric finds Stainsby beck

  1 - deeper into  the prehistoric  grey deposit .
  2 - Prehistoric horse metacarpal .
  3 - Note how deep into the deposit the metacarpal is situated , the Human tibia shaft shown in earlier posts  was excavated about a metre to the left .
  4 - 5  Canis incisor
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Rhizocretion  containing crystals possibly Aragonite .
 
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Friday 22 March 2013

Another Mesolithic gravel bed deposit uncovered at Stainton

 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 .
 

Monday 18 March 2013

Excavated Prehistoric flint from ancient lake deposit Stainsby beck Cleveland.

 1  I could be wrong but I believe this flint that was excavated from the same grey deposit as the bones and leather reported in earlier posts , was very likely used as a fire starting implement .
 
 
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3 This image shows a similar piece note the angles and percussion marks .
 
 
 
 

Sunday 17 March 2013

Prehistoric Dog and Wolf ? ulna's and possibl flint core excavated Stainsby beck

  1 -  The grey deposit can be seen behind the ruler.
  2 - This image shows a proximal tibia shaft before excavation.
  3 - The Canis ulna on the left was excavated deep into the deposit, the larger Canis ulna was found at another location.
  4 - The larger ulna looks large enough to possibly be wolf .
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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 .  
 


 
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Friday 8 March 2013

Prehistoric horse radius excavated Stainsby beck.

  1 - This piece was excavated from the top left of this deposit .
  2 - It appears to have several different mineralised layers including what looks to be preserved organic material maybe wood ?
  3 - The outer concretion appears to contain a lot of quartz grains .
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  5 The preserved organic material can clearly be see in this image, at first i thought it to be preserved wood , ime now not so sure and believe it could be preserved none mineralised bone .

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The red outline shows the once spongy bone totally mineralised .
 
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Wednesday 6 March 2013

Possibly britains oldes preserved shoe sole

  1 - The leather shoe sole shown in earlier posts found close to deposits ive worked near Stainsby beck Thornaby on Tees Cleveland .
  2 I have now cleared most of the holes that look to have been created by a bone tool .
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 4 - Note the leather has been doubled up .
  4 The leather was found close to the same Prehistoric deposit as the pottery below .
  5 These pottery pieces excavated very close to the preserved shoe sole, Peter Row of Tees archaeology informed me he believes to be iron age.
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