Summary

A series of sediment samples, a small quantity of hand-collected shell, and four boxes of hand-col1ected bone from deposits revealed by excavations at County Hall, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, were submitted for an evaluation of their bioarchaeological potential. Four of the sediment samples produced assemblages of charred plant remains, which seem to have formed through the burning of thatch. Examples of this kind of material are extremely rare. In view of the unusual nature of the plant material, further analysis of the samples from the present evaluation is recommended. The small quantity of hand-collected shell was mostly well-preserved oyster valves of only limited interpretative value. A small but very well preserved assemblage of vertebrate remains from 46 very closely dated contexts which, with one exception, were dated to the 12th and 13th centuries. A limited range of species was identified, revealing a predominance of caprovids which is analogous to similarly dated assemblages from Beverley. There was a high proportion of mandibles and measurabl