Early Medieval graveyard on site of demolished St John's church.

Fifteen lined graves were uncovered. The dead consisted of a mixture of men, women, and children and thus belonged to a lay cemetery. All were orientated with heads to the west, the graves appeared to have been laid out in rows. The extent of the cemetery is unknown. The graves cut the dumped soil (associated with rebuilding after the fire of 1133).

Eighteen burials lay in shallow unaligned graves no more than 0.8m deep, mostly badly damaged by the contractor, several graves overlay the foundations of St John's Church. No grave contained peg-tile or slate and the latest pottery associated with any of them is c.12th century. A significant find was part of a 12th century pot in F62.

The parish church of St Giles was founded in the cemetery of the abbey sometime between 1133 and 1171, the site of St John's church (demolished c.1095), was presumably continued to be used as a lay burial ground until the new church and churchyard took over, suggesting a date range for the cemetery of c.1133-1171.<1><2>