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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 380391

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Context Information

Context number	380391
Parent context number	380390
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	318 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	Bar Hill 5
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age
A14 Area	Bar Hill (TEA38)
Associated digital archive	MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at Bar Hill Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081250

Context Sheet(s)

Context sheet for context 380391
Filename	A14-TEA38-CN380391.pdf (128 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Bar Hill Context Sheets (380001-380999)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Good	Middle adult (26-35 years)	Male	view Inhumation details for object 37886 Indication when there are human intrusive remains included with the skeleton: 1 Indication when there are anmal intrusive remains included with the skeleton: 1 Sub sampled: 1 Thyroid cartilage: 1.0 Comments: DW 20/07/20. CROUCHED, LYING ON R.SIDE WITH HIPS & KNEES FLEXED. NW-SE. INT. ADULT R.TEMPORAL BONE (ONLY INT. HUMAN BONE - DID SOMETHING GO WRONG WITH THE DNA SAMPLING (MIX UP OF BONE?) BUT PETROUS BONE IN SAMPLE PHOTO DOES MATCH ITS PAIR FROM THE SKELETON. DISTURBED BY PLOUGHING? C14 & DNA (PETROUS) 28/10/19. ISOTOPE SAMPLE TOOTH 37 & RIB FRAG 21/07/20. MH 23/10/20 UPDATED: FILL [380389] FRAG OF ADULT FEMORAL CONDYLE, 2 X INTL AND 3 X DISTAL FOOT PHALANGES TO BE REASSOCIATED WITH SK [380391 Pathology comments: NONE

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
34	Other	Other (Joints - Miscellaneous)
93	Osteonecroses	Other (Circulatory-Osteonecroses)	view Expansion of R. 5th manual PIP joint surfaces with remodelling of articular surfaces into irregular but smooth surfaces of compact bone. Likely to be the result of localised trauma leading to loss of blood flow to the joint.	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 93 Bone: M. Int. Phalanges R (bone no. B55) 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. Bone: M. Prox. Phalanges R (bone no. B52) 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.
211	Non-Specific Infection	Non-specific periostitis	view 4 x R. & 1 x L. upper ribs, visceral surfaces of necks & angles: thick deposits of mature compact bone. Healed.	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 211 Bone: Ribs (Heads Only) L (bone no. B32) 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 Rib segment note: Only the heads of ribs should be counted, i.e. the portion of the ribs with the costo-vertebral and costo-transverse articular facets. These counts are then entered numerically for each side: B30 for right ribs, B32 for left ribs. Rib heads that cannot be sided confidently can be entered in B31. All three cells (B30-32) should add up to no more than 24. Bone: Ribs (Heads Only) R (bone no. B30) 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 Rib segment note: Only the heads of ribs should be counted, i.e. the portion of the ribs with the costo-vertebral and costo-transverse articular facets. These counts are then entered numerically for each side: B30 for right ribs, B32 for left ribs. Rib heads that cannot be sided confidently can be entered in B31. All three cells (B30-32) should add up to no more than 24.
311	Osteoarthritis	Osteoarthritis	view R.patella (femoropatellar jt.) 1001.
1055	Miscellaneous	Dental	view Deep pocketing in buccal alveolar process of right molars.
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left	view 2
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right	view 3

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE
Context description	INHUMATION BURIAL. FILL OF 380390.
General comments	Sample Reference: A14-380391
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	97751 (GU57438)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	2032
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	25
Delta 13C (δ13C stable isotope)	-20.1
Delta 15N (δ15N stable isotope)	12.5
Primary early calibrated date range	-101
Primary late calibrated date range	62
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%

Context Photographs

	Photograph of pre-excavation - burial [sk380391], facing south west. Parent context shown 380390. From TEA38. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Bar Hill Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England.
Photograph of pre-excavation - burial [sk380391], facing south west. Parent context shown 380390. From TEA38. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Bar Hill Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England. Photograph of pre-excavation - burial [sk380391], facing south west. Parent context shown 380390. From TEA38. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Bar Hill Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England. [DOWNLOAD] (Full Resolution) right-click and save file
	Filename	A14-TEA38-PN3801946.jpg (5 MB)	JPG	Info Download

	Photograph of crouch burial sk380391, facing south west. Parent context shown 380390. From TEA38. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Bar Hill Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England.
Photograph of crouch burial sk380391, facing south west. Parent context shown 380390. From TEA38. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Bar Hill Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England. Photograph of crouch burial sk380391, facing south west. Parent context shown 380390. From TEA38. Recorded from the excavations at A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Bar Hill Landscape Block, Cambridgeshire, England. [DOWNLOAD] (Full Resolution) right-click and save file
	Filename	A14-TEA38-PN3801985.jpg (6 MB)	JPG	Info Download