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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 323807

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Context Information

Context number	323807
Parent context number	323806
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	197 (Cremation Burial)
Settlement ?	Conington 3
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age
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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Human Remains

Cremation

Sample number	Weight of sample	Type of cremation	Minimum number of individuals	Age group	Sex estimate	Comments
32590	3g	Pit Fill	1	Undetermined	Undetermined	view ANALYSIS MH 07/09/20, TRANSVERSE CRACKS, FILL [323807] SAMPLE <32590> OF POSSIBLE CREMATION CU [323806]. MAY HAVE ORIGINALLY BEEN A POST HOLE. SMALL QUANTITIY OF FRAGMENTED UNDIAGNOSTIC BUNRT BONE. TOTAL RESIDUE WEIGHT: 80.2G: 2MM 23.7G (FINE STONES/ PEA GRIT/ GRAVEL FLAKES, MODERATELY SORTED, SUB ANGULAR), <2MM 56G (COURSE SAND, SILT DUST, GRAVEL FLAKES, CHARCOAL C. 5%) 2 X FRAGS OF CHARCOAL 0.5G. ALSO SEE FILL [323808] SAMPLE <32591> CONTAINING RESIDUE 586G, EGG SHELL 0.1G, CHARCOAL 1.0G, UNFIRED CLAY 6.0G BUT NO BURNT BONE.

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Sample number	0
State of preservation	POOR
Weight	0.01g
Number of bones medium mammals	13
Number of bones with butchery marks	1
Number of burnt bones	13

Environmental Data

Processed samples

Sample number	Volume proccessed (L)	Volume wet-sieved (L)	Type of flotation	Volume of flotted material (L)	Comments	Assessment results
32590	2	0	Dry	2		view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 32590 (4 records) Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE HUMAN Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD GRAIN Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Comments: HORVU, TRI Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional

Botany Data

Flotation (sample 32590)
Sample number	32590
Process	Flotation
Volume processed (L)	2
Volume flotted (L)	2
Abundance of charred grain	1-10
Diversity of charred grain	1-3 taxa
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	0
Comments	FILL OF CREMATION

Wet sieving (sample 32590)
Sample number	32590
Process	Wet sieving
Volume processed (L)	2
Volume flotted (L)	2
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	1-3 taxa
Comments	FILL OF CREMATION