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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 383291

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Context Information

Context number	383291
Parent context number	383292
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	227 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	Bar Hill 5
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age-Roman
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 383291
Filename	A14-TEA38-CN383291.pdf (100 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Bar Hill Context Sheets (383001-383999)		PDF	Download

Flint

Type	Total	Weight	Comments
Flake+Flake Fragments	1	0g
Unassigned	11	0g

Slag

Sample Number	Type of Slag	Fragment Count	Weight	Measurements	Comments
38390	Unknown	1	6.47g	Length: 25mm	dark opaque glass; partly decayed?; CHECK CONTEXT TYPE

Human Remains

Disarticulated human bone

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Comments
Good	Adult		view SAMPLE <38390> L. SCAPHOID FROM GRAVE [383292] ASSOCIATED WITH SKELETON [383290]

Disarticulated bones

Bone number	Bone type	Bone segments	Bone pathology
B49	Carpals L	view 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 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 38389
Sample number	38389
State of preservation	GOOD
Weight	0.002g
Number of bones medium mammals	15
Number of burnt bones	1

Sample 38390
Sample number	38390
State of preservation	MODERATE
Weight	0.006g
Number of bird bones	1
Summary notes	SCAPHOLUNAR?

Animal bones

Bone Species	Quantity of Bone for Species	Bone Type and Part(s)	More information
Human	1	Radial Carpal=Scaphoid (1 Whole Bone)	view More Information on Human Bones in Context 383291 Bone number 7431 Unique number assigned to bone: 7431 Type of species: HUMAN Type of bone: RADIAL CARPAL=SCAPHOID part of bone present: WHOLE BONE Proportion of the animal present in a range of 1-5 : 5 Number of fragments recovered: 1 Weight (in g): 0 Zoological comment on zones: EXTRACTED FOR OSTEOS
Sheep Size	2	Rib (1 Fragment) Unidentified (1 Fragment)	view More Information on Sheep Size Bones in Context 383291 Bone number 7309 Unique number assigned to bone: 7309 Type of species: SHEEP SIZE Type of bone: UNIDENTIFIED part of bone present: FRAGMENT Proportion of the animal present in a range of 1-5 : 1 Number of fragments recovered: 1 Weight (in g): 0 Sieve size used to recover the bone: 1 Modification data for bone number 7309 Common or English name of the species: SHEEP SIZE Code for name of bone: UNI Number of fragments recovered: 1 State of the bone concerned: Burning Description of fragment/bone: W Bone number 7430 Unique number assigned to bone: 7430 Type of species: SHEEP SIZE Type of bone: RIB part of bone present: FRAGMENT Proportion of the animal present in a range of 1-5 : 1 Number of fragments recovered: 1 Weight (in g): 0 Zoological comment on zones: D
Strawberry Snail	1	Shell (1 Fragment)	view More Information on Strawberry Snail Bones in Context 383291 Bone number 103 Unique number assigned to bone: 103 Type of species: STRAWBERRY SNAIL Type of bone: SHELL part of bone present: FRAGMENT Number of fragments recovered: 6 Weight (in g): 0 Sieve size used to recover the bone: 1

Environmental Data

Processed samples

Sample number	Volume proccessed (L)	Volume wet-sieved (L)	Type of flotation	Volume of flotted material (L)	Comments	Assessment results
38389	20	0	Dry	20		view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 38389 (6 records) Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: MOLSC TR Abundance: Abundant Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE L MAM Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE MISC Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD SEEDS Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: MOLSC FW Abundance: Occasional
38390	20	0	Dry	20	view Comments: MAGNETIC RESIDUE PRESENT. Specialist comments: PLN	view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 38390 (4 records) 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: MOLSC FW Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: GEN INSECTS Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low

Botany Data

Wet sieving (sample 38389)
Sample number	38389
Process	Wet sieving
Volume processed (L)	20
Volume flotted (L)	20
Abundance of charred seeds	1-10
Diversity of charred seeds	0
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	0
Comments	FILL OF GRAVE 383292