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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 381280

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Context Information

Context number	381280
Parent context number	381276
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	1 (Ditch)
Land use interpretation	Linear boundary (LB1)
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 381280
Filename	A14-TEA38-CN381280.pdf (82 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Bar Hill Context Sheets (381000-381899)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Disarticulated human bone

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Comments
Good	Subadult		view NOT A BURIAL, FILL OF DITCH [381276], SAMPLE <38068>, UNIDENTIFIED SUBADULT BONE (CAPITATE?), ONE OF MULTIPLE DITCH FILLS.

Disarticulated bones

Bone number	Bone type	Bone segments	Bone pathology
B49	Carpals L	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: 0 Bone segment 3: 0 Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: Bone segment 8: 0 Carpals segment note: The carpal bones (B48/49) are divided into their proximal and distal rows and then recorded as an eight digit binary array. The carpal sequence is scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform (proximal row), trapezium, trapezoid, capitate and hamate (distal row). Thus, a complete set of carpals would be 11111111, and a set with the pisiform and the trapezoid missing would be 11101011.

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Sample number	38068
State of preservation	MODERATE
Weight	0.002g
Number of bones medium mammals	20
Number of burnt bones	5
Summary notes	UNID

Environmental Data

Processed samples

Sample number	Volume proccessed (L)	Volume wet-sieved (L)	Type of flotation	Volume of flotted material (L)	Comments	Assessment results
38068	40	0	Dry	40		view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 38068 (5 records) Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Abundant Diversity: Low Comments: 100% CHARCOAL Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE HUMAN Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE MISC Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE S MAM Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Abundant

Botany Data

Flotation (sample 38068)
Sample number	38068
Process	Flotation
Volume processed (L)	40
Volume flotted (L)	40
Abundance of charred wood	50+
Diversity of charred wood	1-3 taxa
Comments	DARK CHARCOAL DEPOSIT + ORGANIC FILL

Wet sieving (sample 38068)
Sample number	38068
Process	Wet sieving
Volume processed (L)	40
Volume flotted (L)	40
Abundance of charred wood	50+
Diversity of charred wood	0
Comments	DARK CHARCOAL DEPOSIT + ORGANIC FILL