IN LATE NOVEMBER 1976 BUILDING CONTRACTORS WORKING IN GRAYINGHAM REPORTED TO THE POLICE THE FINDING OF A HUMAN SKULL AND OTHER HUMAN BONES IN A PIPE TRENCH. THE POLICE WERE ANXIOUS TO KNOW THE DATE OF THE DEPOSIT OF THE BONES AND M HARMAN AND J SAMUELS VISITED THE SITE TO SEE IF THIS COULD BE ASCERTAINED. THE PIPE TRENCH WAS BESIDE A HOUSE WHICH FACED THE MAIN ROAD THROUGH THE VILLAGE WITH A GARDEN BACKING ONTO THE CHURCHYARD. THE DISTANCE FROM THE PIPE TRENCH WHERE THE BONES WERE DISCOVERED TO THE NEAREST POINT OF THE PRESENT CHURCHYARD BOUNDARY WAS APPROXIMATELY 50M. EXAMINATION OF THE TRENCH LED TO THE RECOVERY OF MORE PIECES OF HUMAN BONES, AS WELL AS ANIMAL BONES AND POTTERY. THE HUMAN BONES WERE FRAGMENTARY AND SCATTERED ALONG THE TRENCH AND DID NOT SEEM TO COME FROM AN ARTICULATED SKELETON OR SKELETONS. THE BONES WERE FROM ADULTS AND MUST REPRESENT AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE. THE POTTERY, OF EARLY C12 DATE, CAME FROM TWO DISTINCT AREAS WHERE PERHAPS PITS OR DITCHES HAD BEEN CUT INTO THE NATURAL SUBSOIL. ONE OF THESE DISTURBANCES HAD PACKED IN ITS SIDE THREE LIMESTONE BLOCKS WHICH COULD REPRESENT THE REMAINS OF A WALL FOUNDATION. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DEPOSITION OF THE HUMAN BONES ARE NOT CERTAIN. THE TOP SOIL IN THE SIDE OF THE TRENCH IN THE VICINITY OF THE FEATURES MENTIONED ABOVE SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN MADE-UP GROUND; AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOIL FROM THE NEARBY CHURCHYARD WAS USED FOR THIS PURPOSE. THE ILLUSTRATED POTTERY WAS ALL FOUND TOGETHER, AND MIGHT BE ASSUMED TO HAVE FORMED ONE DEPOSIT: 2 COOKING POTS OF FINE SHELL-GRITTED FABRICS; 2 JUGS OF NOTTINGHAM WARE WITH SPLASHED GLAZE DECORATION. {1}{2}{3}