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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 280801

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Context Information

Context number	280801
Parent context number	280802
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	574 (Inhumation Burial)
Land use interpretation	Field-system (F12)
Settlement ?	Fenstanton Gravels 4
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age
A14 Area	Fenstanton Gravels (TEA28)
Associated digital archive	MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at Fenstanton Gravels Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081254

Context Sheet(s)

Context sheet for context 280801
Filename	A14-TEA28-CN280801.pdf (76 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Fenstanton Gravels Context Sheets (050004-050959)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Disarticulated human bone

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Comments
Good	Adult	Undetermined	view SOME BONE ENTERED FROM ASSESSMENT (NOT SEEN AT ANALYSIS) DATA. ADDITIONAL L. PROX FEMUR, L. TIBIA, R. DISTAL HUMERUS, ULNA AND PARIETAL BONES FOUND IN HEADLAND ARCHIVE 07/2022 AND RECORDED AMMENDED MH 14/-7/2022 CONTEXT SHHET SAYS DELIBERATE BACKFILL. ORACLE RECORDS AS INHUMATION BUT CONTEXT SHEET SAYS FILL OF TREE BOWL CONTAINING ANIMAL BONE

Disarticulated bones

Bone number	Bone type	Bone segments	Bone pathology
B42	Humerus R	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: 0 Bone segment 3: Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.
B46	Ulna R	view 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 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.
B5	Parietal R	view 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.
B6	Parietal L	view 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.
B67	Femur R	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.
B68	Femur L	view Bone segment 1: 1 Bone segment 2: 1 Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.
B71	Tibia R	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.
B72	Tibia L	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.
B74	Fibula L	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE
Context description	NOTHING LISTED!
General comments	SAMPLE ID: 280801
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	92755 (GU54646)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	2033
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	24
Delta 13C (δ13C stable isotope)	-20.2
Primary early calibrated date range	-111
Primary late calibrated date range	48
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%