Summary

Seven sediment samples, one box of hand-collected shell, and six boxes of hand-col1ected bone from deposits revealed by excavations behind and adjacent to 52 Keldgate, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, were submitted for an evaluation of their bioarchaeological potential. Some of the deposits yielded useful assemblages of plant and invertebrate remains with good potential for exploring further the human activity and land-use in this area. The current hand-collected shell assemblage is too small to be of interpretative value beyond indicating the importation of edible shellfish to the site. Preservation of the remains was quite good, however, and the possibility of recovering a larger, and more interpretatively valuable, assemblage should be considered in the event of further excavations in this area. Deposits from this site have produced a moderate-sized assemblage of bone, which is of interest because of its combination of good preservation, largely post-medieval date and the presence of numerous measurable bones. A detailed record should be made of the bone recovered from all well-dated deposits, particularly concentrating on biometrical analyses of the caprovid metapodials. Special attention should be paid to noting and recording incidences of pathologica