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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 385747

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Context Information

Context number	385747
Parent context number	385748
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	265 (Ditch)
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 385747
Filename	A14-TEA38-CN385747.pdf (418 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Bar Hill Context Sheets (385000-385998)		PDF	Download

Pottery

Pottery Identification Number	Form	Fabric (Fabric Code)	Period	Vessel Information
61794	JA5-B	Sandy organics-tempered fabric, medium (ORSAM-B)	Iron Age	view Vessel information for pot no. 61794 Vessel identification number: 61859 Number of fragments recovered: 5 Weight (in g): 209 Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 0 Rim diameter (in mm): 240 Publication reference number: 9.0 Is pottery worn?: UNWORN Is pottery abraided?: UNABRADED Pottery worthy of illustration?: Y Broad forming method, i.e. wheelmade or hand-built. Designed for use with Iron Age and Roman Pottery only: HAND-BUILT Count of sherds collected from sample: 0 Sample sherd weight (in g): 0.0
61423	JA9-B	Sandy organics-tempered fabric, medium (ORSAM-B)	Iron Age	view Vessel information for pot no. 61423 Vessel identification number: 62159 Number of fragments recovered: 3 Weight (in g): 84 Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 0 Rim diameter (in mm): 140 Publication reference number: 0.0 Is pottery worn?: UNWORN Is pottery abraided?: UNABRADED Broad forming method, i.e. wheelmade or hand-built. Designed for use with Iron Age and Roman Pottery only: HAND-BUILT Count of sherds collected from sample: 0 Sample sherd weight (in g): 0.0
61424	-	Sandy fabric, fine (SAF-B)	Iron Age	view Vessel information for pot no. 61424 Vessel identification number: 62160 Number of fragments recovered: 1 Weight (in g): 21 Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 0 Rim diameter (in mm): 0 Publication reference number: 0.0 Is pottery worn?: UNWORN Is pottery abraided?: UNABRADED Broad forming method, i.e. wheelmade or hand-built. Designed for use with Iron Age and Roman Pottery only: HAND-BUILT Count of sherds collected from sample: 0 Sample sherd weight (in g): 0.0
61793	JA6-B	Sand-and-shell fabric, coarse (SASHC-B)	Iron Age	view Vessel information for pot no. 61793 Vessel identification number: 61860 Number of fragments recovered: 12 Weight (in g): 780 Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 1 Rim diameter (in mm): 190 Publication reference number: 8.0 Is pottery worn?: UNWORN Is pottery abraided?: UNABRADED Pottery worthy of illustration?: Y Broad forming method, i.e. wheelmade or hand-built. Designed for use with Iron Age and Roman Pottery only: HAND-BUILT Count of sherds collected from sample: 0 Sample sherd weight (in g): 0.0 Comments: ROUGH Decoration information for vessel no. 61860 Decoration type: Barbotine Scale Decoration Location of decoration on vessel: BODY(ALL OVER)

Human Remains

Disarticulated human bone

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Comments
Good	Perinatal		view WELL PRESERVED MID-DISTAL SHAFT OF LEFT HUMERUS FROM FILL OF DITCH [385748] WHICH CONTAINED FREQUENT ANBN & MODERATE IRON AGE POT

Disarticulated bones

Bone number	Bone type	Bone segments	Bone pathology
B42	Humerus R	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: Bone segment 3: Bone segment 4: 0 Bone segment 5: 0 Bone segment 6: 0 Bone segment 7: 0 Bone segment 8: 0 Long bone segment note: When an entry is made into the L1 table – in the example entries for a left and right femur – the application validates the entry made. In this case a three character binary array is expected indicating the presence or absence of the proximal, shaft and distal thirds of the bone, e.g. 101, 111, 010, 110, 011.

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Sample 0
Sample number	0
State of preservation	GOOD
Weight	0.95g
Animal remains type(s) present	Cattle Pig Sheep or Goat Human
Number of bones large mammals	10
Number of bones medium mammals	40
Number of identifiable epiphyses	5
Number of identifiable mandibles	3
Number of measureable bones	1
Number of complete bones	1
Summary notes	CALFCATTLESHEEP/GOATMANDIBLE/INFANTHUMAN HUMERUS

Sample 38592
Sample number	38592
State of preservation	GOOD
Weight	0.05g
Animal remains type(s) present	Cattle Sheep or Goat
Number of bones large mammals	1
Number of bones medium mammals	10
Number of identifiable epiphyses	2

Animal bones

Bone Species	Quantity of Bone for Species	Bone Type and Part(s)	More information
Cattle	1	Mandible (1 Fragment)	view More Information on Cattle Bones in Context 385747 Bone number 15 Unique number assigned to bone: 15 Type of species: CATTLE Type of bone: MANDIBLE 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 Side of the animal from which the bone came from (l or r): L Age of animal [codes: FN = foetal. I = immature. J = juvenile. O = old. SA = senior adult. YA = young adult]: A Zoological comment on zones: PHOTOS TAKEN - MANDIBLE EXTRACTED FOR ISOTOPE (SUERC) Dental ageing data for bone number 15 Type of species: BOS Type of bone: MAN Deciduous premolar 4 Grant wear stage: 0 Premolar 4 Grant wear stage: 0 Molar 1 Grant wear stage: 0 Molar 2 Grant wear stage: 15 Molar 3 Grant wear stage: 15 Deciduous premolar 4 Payne wear stage: 0 Premolar 4 Payne wear stage: 0 Molar 1 Payne wear stage: 0 Molar 2 Payne wear stage: 0 Molar 3 Payne wear stage: 0 Comment: PHOTOS TAKEN - MANDIBLE EXTRACTED FOR ISOTOPE (SUERC)

Environmental Data

Processed samples

Sample number	Volume proccessed (L)	Volume wet-sieved (L)	Type of flotation	Volume of flotted material (L)	Comments	Assessment results
38592	20	0	Dry	20		view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 38592 (5 records) Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Moderate Diversity: Low Comments: UP TO 10MM FRGS Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE L MAM Abundance: Occasional Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD GRAIN Abundance: Moderate Diversity: Low Comments: BARLEY, CF.TRITICUM Sieving/flotation process: Flotation Environmental material identified: CHD MISC Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Comments: SMALL BREAD FRG Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional

Botany Data

Flotation (sample 38592)
Sample number	38592
Process	Flotation
Volume processed (L)	20
Volume flotted (L)	20
Abundance of charred grain	11-50
Diversity of charred grain	1-3 taxa
Abundance of charred miscellaneous	1-10
Diversity of charred miscellaneous	1-3 taxa
Abundance of charred wood	11-50
Diversity of charred wood	1-3 taxa
Comments	FILL OF GULLY

Wet sieving (sample 38592)
Sample number	38592
Process	Wet sieving
Volume processed (L)	20
Volume flotted (L)	20
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	0
Comments	FILL OF GULLY