During the 1997 field season, detailed recording of animal bone material from all areas of excavation was undertaken.
Analysis is still at an early stage and results remain tentative, but certain trends are apparent.
Sheep and goat dominate in all areas, with more sheep than goat. The North area ratio is skewed by a high goat horn core count, largely attributable to a pile of morphologically wild goat horn cores on top of the lentil bin. Fallow deer remains a possibility, given several fragments of antler that are somewhat flattened but too small to be clearly diagnostic. The cervids are represented almost entirely by antler, much of it worked. Thus their presence at the site may be largely due to the acquisition of antler by collection or exchange, rather than procurement and consumption of the whole body.