  We report on an extended fluctuation regime in the spin dimer system Sr3Cr2O8
based on anomalies in Raman active phonons and magnetic scattering. The
compound has two characteristic temperatures, TS = 275 K, related to a
Jahn-Teller transition with structural distortions and orbital ordering and a
second, T*= 150 K, which is due to further changes in the orbital sector. Below
TS quasielastic scattering marks strong fluctuations and in addition phonon
anomalies are observed. For temperatures below T* we observe an exponential
decrease of one phonon linewidth and determine a gap of the orbital
excitations. At low temperatures the observation of two- and three-magnon
scattering allows the determination of the spin excitation gap.
