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A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works

MOLA Headland Infrastructure, 2020. (updated 2025) https://doi.org/10.5284/1081262.

Context 107297

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Context Information

Context number	107297
Parent context number	107296
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	198 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	Brampton West 100
General Period of Feature	Early Roman
A14 Area	Brampton West (TEA10)
Associated digital archive	MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at Brampton West Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081252

Context Sheet(s)

Context sheet for context 107297
Filename	A14-TEA10-CN107297.pdf (269 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Brampton West Context Sheets (107000-107749)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Moderate	Unclassified adult (>18 years)	Undetermined	view Inhumation details for object 48439 Sub sampled: 1 Comments: DW 21/08/20. POSSIBLY CROUCHED & LYING ON LEFT SIDE, BUT VERY CRUSHED & DISTURBED (THOUGH UNCERTAIN IF TRUNCATED OR BODY WENT INTO GRAVE INCOMPLETE), LEGS ABSENT. CONTEXT SHEET: E-W (BUT PHOTO S-N. R.CARPALS & FRAGS BAGGED AS 'SK 107298 (<10685> & <10686>)' BELONG TO & RECORDED AS SK [107297]. C14 CAL -46 - 150 (95.4%). ISOTOPE SAMPLE T.27 & RIB FRAG..

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right	view 9
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left
1010	Blood Disorders	Porotic hyperostosis	view Ectocranial frontal & parietal frags.: diffuse porotic indentations with smooth margins. Healed.	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 1010 Bone: Parietal R (bone no. B5) Bone segment 1: 1 Bone segment 2: 0 Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Cranial segment note: Most of the cranial bones are scored as a single digit, the exceptions to this are the sphenoid and occipital bones, recorded as binary arrays. The sphenoid is recorded as five separate elements, the basisphenoid or body (B12) is recorded as a single digit. Each of the two wings (B11/B13) is recorded as a two-digit array, the first digit corresponding to the greater wing and the second digit corresponding to the lesser wing. The occipital bone is recorded relative to its four primary centres, the basioccipital (=pars basilaris) in B15, the exoccipitals (=pars lateralis) in B14 and B16 and the squamous portion in B17. The mandible is recorded as two halves: the right and the left. Bone: Frontal L (bone no. B4) Bone segment 1: 1 Bone segment 2: 0 Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Cranial segment note: Most of the cranial bones are scored as a single digit, the exceptions to this are the sphenoid and occipital bones, recorded as binary arrays. The sphenoid is recorded as five separate elements, the basisphenoid or body (B12) is recorded as a single digit. Each of the two wings (B11/B13) is recorded as a two-digit array, the first digit corresponding to the greater wing and the second digit corresponding to the lesser wing. The occipital bone is recorded relative to its four primary centres, the basioccipital (=pars basilaris) in B15, the exoccipitals (=pars lateralis) in B14 and B16 and the squamous portion in B17. The mandible is recorded as two halves: the right and the left. Bone: Frontal R (bone no. B3) Bone segment 1: 1 Bone segment 2: 0 Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Cranial segment note: Most of the cranial bones are scored as a single digit, the exceptions to this are the sphenoid and occipital bones, recorded as binary arrays. The sphenoid is recorded as five separate elements, the basisphenoid or body (B12) is recorded as a single digit. Each of the two wings (B11/B13) is recorded as a two-digit array, the first digit corresponding to the greater wing and the second digit corresponding to the lesser wing. The occipital bone is recorded relative to its four primary centres, the basioccipital (=pars basilaris) in B15, the exoccipitals (=pars lateralis) in B14 and B16 and the squamous portion in B17. The mandible is recorded as two halves: the right and the left. Bone: Parietal L (bone no. B6) Bone segment 1: 1 Bone segment 2: 0 Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Cranial segment note: Most of the cranial bones are scored as a single digit, the exceptions to this are the sphenoid and occipital bones, recorded as binary arrays. The sphenoid is recorded as five separate elements, the basisphenoid or body (B12) is recorded as a single digit. Each of the two wings (B11/B13) is recorded as a two-digit array, the first digit corresponding to the greater wing and the second digit corresponding to the lesser wing. The occipital bone is recorded relative to its four primary centres, the basioccipital (=pars basilaris) in B15, the exoccipitals (=pars lateralis) in B14 and B16 and the squamous portion in B17. The mandible is recorded as two halves: the right and the left.

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE
Context description	DATE OF LIA? BURIAL
General comments	SAMPLE ID: 107297
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	91525 (GU53801)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	1985
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	26
Delta 13C (δ13C stable isotope)	-19.9
Delta 15N (δ15N stable isotope)	12.9
Primary early calibrated date range	-46
Primary late calibrated date range	150
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%

Context Photographs

	Photograph of general shot of skeleton (107297), facing east. Parent context shown 107296. From TEA10. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Brampton West Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England.
Photograph of general shot of skeleton (107297), facing east. Parent context shown 107296. From TEA10. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Brampton West Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England. Photograph of general shot of skeleton (107297), facing east. Parent context shown 107296. From TEA10. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Brampton West Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England. [DOWNLOAD] (Full Resolution) right-click and save file
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