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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 383075

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Context Information

Context number	383075
Parent context number	383076
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	135 (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 383075
Filename	A14-TEA38-CN383075.pdf (96 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Bar Hill Context Sheets (383001-383999)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Moderate	Unclassified adult (>18 years)	Male	view Inhumation details for object 37925 Sub sampled: 1 Comments: DW 24/7/20. CROUCHED, LYING ON RIGHT SIDE, ALIGNED SW-NE, FACING E, WITH ARMS CROSSED OVER BODY AND LEGS QUITE TIGHTLY FLEXED (<90° AT HIPS & KNEES). ROBUST. C14= -182-44 BC (95.4). DNA PETROUS. ISOTOPE T.45 & RIB FRAG. Pathology comments: NONE

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right
311	Osteoarthritis	Osteoarthritis	view R.MT1, MTP joint: 1221.
429	Accidental	Fracture to a joint surface	view L.fibula: healed vertical fissure fracture in L.talofibular joint surface. 10.9mm long with slight step in suface (max. height 0.6mm).
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left
1010	Blood Disorders	Porotic hyperostosis	view Ectocranial surface of parietals (sagittal zone): diffuse porotic indentations with smooth margins. Healed.	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 1010 Bone: Parietal R (bone no. B5) 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. Bone: Parietal L (bone no. B6) 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.
1055	Miscellaneous	Dental	view Tooth 44: # of buccomesial quarter of crown. Hard dietary particle or cranial trauma.

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE
Context description	ONE OF ISOLATED BURIALS
General comments	Sample ID 383075
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	91609 (GU53841)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	2089
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	26
Primary early calibrated date range	-182
Primary late calibrated date range	-44
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%