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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 381833

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Context Information

Context number	381833
Parent context number	381829
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	74 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	Bar Hill 5
General Period of Feature	Middle-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 381833
Filename	A14-TEA38-CN381833.pdf (117 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

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Good	Early childhood (1-5 years)		view Inhumation details for object 37930 Photo: P7 Sub sampled: 1 Comments: DW 23/07/20. ONE OF TWO INFANT BURIALS ON A BED OF STONES WITHIN A CIRCULAR PIT / GRAVE [381829] (OTHER IS SK 381834 IMMEDIATELY TO NE). LEFT ARM LIES UNDER SKULL OF SK 381834. CROUCHED(?) NW-SE. C14 DATE -359-170 (95.4%). DNA SAMPLE (PETROUS). ISOTOPE SAMPLE T.55 & RIB FRAG. Pathology comments: NONE

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right
521	Vitamin C Deficiency	Scurvy	view Diffuse fine pitted woven bone on sup. surface of R.lesser wing of sphemoid. Some active fine pitting also evident on sup. surface of medial section of R. greater wing, in the area of the foramen rotundum & ovale.
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left
1054	Miscellaneous	Endocranial Lesions	view Endocranial surface of occiptal (central zones of all four quadrants): 'hair-on-end' Lewis Type 4 lesions. Inflammatory response, possibly resulting from infection.	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 1054 Bone: Supraoccipital (bone no. B17) 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 Cranial segment note: Most of the cranial bones are scored as a single digit, the exceptions to this are the sphenoid and occipital bones, recorded as binary arrays. The sphenoid is recorded as five separate elements, the basisphenoid or body (B12) is recorded as a single digit. Each of the two wings (B11/B13) is recorded as a two-digit array, the first digit corresponding to the greater wing and the second digit corresponding to the lesser wing. The occipital bone is recorded relative to its four primary centres, the basioccipital (=pars basilaris) in B15, the exoccipitals (=pars lateralis) in B14 and B16 and the squamous portion in B17. The mandible is recorded as two halves: the right and the left.

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE
Context description	DATE OF BURIAL
General comments	Sample ID 381833
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	91608 (GU53840)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	2178
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	26
Primary early calibrated date range	-359
Primary late calibrated date range	-170
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%