Summary

Eight samples of sediment and one small box of bone of 17th century to modern date were submitted for an evaluation of their potential for bioarchaeological analysis. Plant remains from this site were too few in number to be of interpretative value. Small numbers of insect remains were present; at least some of the deposits would give archaeologically useful assemblages if large subsamples were processed. Records included the grain pest Sitophilus oryzae, believed to be a late introduction to Britain; this is probably the only archaeological record for NW Europe. Remains of vertebrates and molluscs were rare and of no clear interpretative value If the deposits are threatened they should be carefully sampled for a selective program of analysis of plant and invertebrate macrofossils; closer dating would be desirable for further work, however