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The contents of a single pit, provisionally dated to the Early Saxon period, were excavated at Easington. Sixteen sediment samples and two boxes of bone were submitted for assessment of their bioarchaeological potential. The vertebrate assemblage formed the most significant part of the bioarchaeological remains. The preservation of the vertebrate remains suggests that the pit may have been filled by several episodes of dumping, both primary dumping and redeposition of material from elsewhere. The presence of small mammal and amphibian bones suggests that the pit must have been open for long enough to act as a pit-fall trap. The systematic sampling program suggested that certain areas of the pit contained different concentrations of bone and of burnt material. The mixture of primary butchery and domestic refuse, combined with concentrations of burnt fragments, suggest that this pit was a general refuse pit