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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 203645

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Context Information

Context number	203645
Parent context number	203589
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	507 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	River Great Ouse 2
General Period of Feature	Mid Roman
A14 Area	River Great Ouse (TEA20)
Associated digital archive	MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at River Great Ouse Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081255

Context Sheet(s)

Context sheet for context 203645
Filename	A14-TEA20-CN203645.pdf (151 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 River Great Ouse Context Sheets (203001-203999)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Moderate	Young adult (18-25 years)	Undetermined	view Inhumation details for object 82495 x ray: X180-X181 Sub sampled: 1 Comments: DW 21/09/20. STERNAL CLAVICLES & DIST. R.ULNA UNFUSED BUT TOOTH 28 ROOT COMPLETE. AT BASE OF DITCH [203659]. ALIGNED S-N (SAME AS DITCH), FACING NW. CROUCHED LYING ON LEFT SIDE WITH LEGS SLIGHTLY FLEXED AT HIPS & KNEES. HANDS BY LEFT FEMUR. C14 SAMPLE TOOTH 17. DNA SAMPLE PETROUS. ISOTOPE T.47 & RIB FRAG.. Pathology comments: VERY FRAGMENTARY

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
723	Cartilage Tissue	Osteochondroma	view DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS (see code 426). X-RAY = soft tissue trauma	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 723 Bone: M. Prox. Phalanges L (bone no. B54) 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 Phalanges segment note: The hand (manual) phalanges are divided into proximal, intermediate and distal rows. Those phalanges that can be readily sided should be recorded as such (cells B52, B55 and B58 for right and B54, B57 and B60 for left). Uncertain cases can be totalled in cells B53, B56 and B59 as unsided. Cells B52-54 should add up to no more than ten, cells B55-57 should add up to no more than eight and cells B58-60 should add up to no more than ten.
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right
1055	Miscellaneous	Dental	view Tooth 36 chipped on mesial edge of occlusal surface.
426	Accidental	Soft tissue trauma (ossified haematoma/myostitis ossificans)	view Medial margin of palmar aspect of distal shaft of L. proximal hand phalanx: sub-rounded growth of mature cortical bone (max. diam. 7.7mm, max.height above normal bone surface 5.2mm) immediately proximal to the dital articular facet. Diff. diag. code 426. X-RAY = soft tissue trauma..	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 426 Bone: M. Prox. Phalanges L (bone no. B54) 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 Phalanges segment note: The hand (manual) phalanges are divided into proximal, intermediate and distal rows. Those phalanges that can be readily sided should be recorded as such (cells B52, B55 and B58 for right and B54, B57 and B60 for left). Uncertain cases can be totalled in cells B53, B56 and B59 as unsided. Cells B52-54 should add up to no more than ten, cells B55-57 should add up to no more than eight and cells B58-60 should add up to no more than ten.

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Sample number	0
State of preservation	MODERATE
Weight	0.235g
Animal remains type(s) present	Cattle Horse
Number of bones large mammals	5
Number of identifiable epiphyses	1
Number of measureable bones	1

Radiocarbon Dating

Radiocarbon sample (GU57424)
Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE
Context description	INHUMATION BURIAL. FILL OF 20358.
General comments	Failed due to insufficient carbon.
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	(GU57424)

Radiocarbon sample 105720 (GU61561)
Sample material	TEETH
Material type	HUMAN TOOTH
Context description	HUMAN TOOTH
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	105720 (GU61561)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	1867
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	16
Delta 13C (δ13C stable isotope)	-15.9
Delta 15N (δ15N stable isotope)	9.7
Primary early calibrated date range	126
Primary late calibrated date range	228
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%
Secondary early calibrated date range	130
Secondary late calibrated date range	213
Secondary calibrated date range confidence	68.3%