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 .

 

  7 -  The white mineral i am still unsure of but it is not calcareous .

Human and animal fossil bones found so far at ... - history of a beck

Fossil bone and artifact excavated to date from - history of a beck

 

 

 

 

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.

Human and animal fossil bones found so far at ... - history of a beck 

Fossil bone and artefact excavated to date from - history of a beck