During the 1997 field season, detailed recording of animal bone material from all areas of excavation was undertaken. The reponse was firstly to create a 'Short Form' for recording only selected elements. A second strategy was to record only certain contexts as a means of sub-sampling. The results presented here are primarily from these priority units. The BACH area also yielded a quantity of animal bones, but most units close to the surface appeared disturbed, and time did not permit close study of the more securely-stratified material.
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. Postcranially, sheep predominate. 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.