Re Floorboards. I worked on assemblages of 16th and 17th century date from
Acton Court, a C16 mansion in England. These included many relatively large
objects as well a hundreds of small things like pins. I don't know if there
were bones- dealt with by another specialst- and it doesn't really explain why
you should get them in corners. Our interpretation was the acton Court finds
represented objects swept into large gaps between old oak floorboards (long
since replaced). We may be over use to the idea of well carpentered closely-
fitting floorboards (mine of c.1900) are tongue and grooved).
Paul Courtney