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HISTORY OF A BECK
ANCIENT CLEVELANDS HIDDEN PAST.
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Tuesday 13 February 2024
New inspection of the Stainsby beck sacrificial site 14 years later.
This Easter holidays after 12 years i am returning to the Stainsby beck area where over 15 years i have excavated many ancient bones and artefacts, including human bones, from what is in my mind most certainly a prehistoric sacrificial site related to the exposure of the Cleveland Dyke. My findings after many floods will be posted soon after my visit. The two images below show the huge Cervus Elephus Antler piece and it excavation at the site from 12 years ago.
Thursday 17 June 2021
Ancient Viking Cleveland
Thursday 12 November 2020
Ice dam collapse of the Esk valley
I believe i was right regarding the ice dam collapse at the western end of the Esk Valley being responsible for the superficial geology of the south western area of Cleveland. The central Esk water body if released suddenly would have created what we see today, ive already proven the area is not covered in till or boulder clay as stated by Aygar. it is in fact covered with alluvial deposits and complexed clays, that contain animal and human sub fossils.
Sunday 20 September 2020
Thursday 16 April 2020
Thursday 25 April 2019
Prehistoric sacraficial site at Stainsby beck Cleveland North East England
I believe the area to be a prehistoric sacrificial site, that has close connections with the outcrop of the Cleveland Basaltic Andesite Dyke it surrounds.
I have excavated and discovered many well preserved mammal bones including Human in a very small area, situated around an outcrop of the dyke. None of the pieces show signs of butchery or disease. I have also excavated pottery pieces some with food remains still attached. Many of the skulls I have found have what look to be cavities and breaks caused by pieces of the basalt found close by.
In ten years of excavating these deposits I have never discovered any iron or alloy or traces of it.
I have also discovered a shoe after a partial collapse of one of my digs, that could well be part of the same deposits, all of the items listed below have been reported to Tees Archaeology and The Dorman Museum Middlesbrough without response. The Human bone has been examined and removed from my possession via Cleveland Police to Teesside University.
Below just some of the pieces excavated at the site, although I can not be certain the shoe sole came from the deposits, more information regarding the shoe sole find can be seen below.
Above a Human Tibia shaft outlined in red with a deer mandible is outlined in yellow to the right.
Above and below two Human Femurs found in the same area in the beck, almost certainly from the same deposits ive been excavating, the Femur above was said to be unusually long and robust in a report by Durham University.
Cervus Mandible