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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 320947

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Context Information

Context number	320947
Parent context number	320944
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	1 (Well/Waterhole), Subgroup number: 2
Settlement ?	Conington 4
General Period of Feature	Early Roman
A14 Area	Conington (TEA32)
Associated digital archive	MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at Conington Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081253

Context Sheet(s)

Context sheet for context 320947
Filename	A14-TEA32-CN320947.pdf (93 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Conington Context Sheets (323000-321499)		PDF	Download

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Animal bones

Bone Species	Quantity of Bone for Species	Bone Type and Part(s)	More information
Deer, Red	1	Cervical Vertebra (1 Most)	view More Information on Deer, Red Bones in Context 320947 Bone number 16 Unique number assigned to bone: 16 Type of species: DEER, RED Type of bone: CERVICAL VERTEBRA part of bone present: MOST Proportion of the animal present in a range of 1-5 : 4 Number of fragments recovered: 1 Weight (in g): 11 Side of the animal from which the bone came from (l or r): B Age of animal [codes: FN = foetal. I = immature. J = juvenile. O = old. SA = senior adult. YA = young adult]: A State of fusion at the proximal end of the bone [codes: F = fused. U = unfused. VO = fused but fuse line open. VC = fused but fuse line closed]: F State of fusion at the distal end of the bone [codes: F = fused. U = unfused. VO = fused but fuse line open. VC = fused but fuse line closed]: F Zoological comment on zones: ONLY BONE FROM CONTEXT; PHOTO TAKEN - EXTRACTED FOR C14 Modification data for bone number 16 Common or English name of the species: DEER, RED Code for name of bone: CEV Number of fragments recovered: 1 State of the bone concerned: Butchery Description of fragment/bone: POS DOR L-M KN5; ANT L SP CH 1

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	RED DEER
Context description	REFINEMENT OF SAXON SETTLEMENT
General comments	sample ID-A14-320947
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	SUERC-93232(GU54663)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	2001
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	25
Delta 13C (δ13C stable isotope)	-22.2
Delta 15N (δ15N stable isotope)	7.7
Primary early calibrated date range	-50
Primary late calibrated date range	60
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%