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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 322638

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Context Information

Context number	322638
Parent context number	322639
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	199 (Inhumation Burial)
Land use interpretation	Cemetery (C1)
Settlement ?	Conington 5
General Period of Feature	Early-Middle Saxon
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

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Environmental Data

Processed samples

Sample number	Volume proccessed (L)	Volume wet-sieved (L)	Type of flotation	Volume of flotted material (L)	Comments	Assessment results
32435	27	0	Dry	27		view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 32435 (6 records) Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE AMPHIB Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE HUMAN Abundance: Abundant Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD GRAIN Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Comments: HORVU Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD SEEDS Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Comments: PIS,BRO
32436	27	0	Dry	27		view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 32436 (3 records) Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD GRAIN Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Comments: AVEHORSECT Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE HUMAN Abundance: Moderate Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low

Botany Data

Flotation (sample 32435)
Sample number	32435
Process	Flotation
Volume processed (L)	27
Volume flotted (L)	27
Abundance of charred grain	1-10
Diversity of charred grain	1-3 taxa
Abundance of charred seeds	1-10
Diversity of charred seeds	1-3 taxa
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	0
Comments	FILL OF BURIAL (ARMS AND RIBS)

Wet sieving (sample 32435)
Sample number	32435
Process	Wet sieving
Volume processed (L)	27
Volume flotted (L)	27
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	1-3 taxa
Comments	FILL OF BURIAL (ARMS AND RIBS)

Flotation (sample 32436)
Sample number	32436
Process	Flotation
Volume processed (L)	27
Volume flotted (L)	27
Abundance of charred grain	1-10
Diversity of charred grain	1-3 taxa
Comments	FILL OF BURIAL (PELVIS AND LEGS)

Wet sieving (sample 32436)
Sample number	32436
Process	Wet sieving
Volume processed (L)	27
Volume flotted (L)	27
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	1-3 taxa
Comments	FILL OF BURIAL (PELVIS AND LEGS)

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	CREMATED BONE- HUMAN
Context description	DATE OF ROMAN INHUMATION
General comments	Sample number 32436
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	92298(GU54193)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	1334
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	30
Delta 13C (δ13C stable isotope)	-16.1
Primary early calibrated date range	647
Primary late calibrated date range	766
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%