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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 410448

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Context Information

Context number	410448
Parent context number	410453
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	61 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	Bar Hill 3
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age-Roman
A14 Area	Bar Hill (TEA41)
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 410448
Filename	A14-TEA41-CN410448.pdf (127 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Bar Hill Context Sheets (410001-410999)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Moderate	mature adult (=46 years )	Probable male	view Inhumation details for object 39737 Comments: SUERC-85559 (GU50645) - 39 CAL BC - 76 CAL AD (DATE (95.4%)) ANALYSIS MH 09/07/20 PALLET 24 BOX 41.38FRAGMENTED, MISSING SKULL. FRAGMENT OF FRONTAL? FOUND NEAR TO GRAVE. ON A SEPARATE PALLET 26: BAG OF FILL FROM GRAVE [410449] SAMPLE <41026>: CONTAINS HUMAN BONE FRAGMENTS, PLUS POTTERY PLUS RESIDUE (144.4G): >1MM 90.0G, >2MM 54.4G. Pathology comments: NONE

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right	view 9
34	Other	Other (Joints - Miscellaneous)
425	Accidental	Compression fracture (vertebrae)	view The inferior, anterior aspect of the fourth thoracic centera is wedged and the intervertebral surface is remodelled with porous bone. Osteophytes are present throughout the thoracic spine. Possible compression fracture casued by mechanical failure of the centrum due to hyperflexion of the spine through Indirect forces following extreme back movements , or fall onto the feet or buttocks (McRae 2003, 351; Galloway 1996, 112).	view Pathology locations for pathology code (element number) 425 Bone: T4 (bone no. B3404) 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 Vertebrae segment note: Vertebrae are coded by area present: Centrum and neural arch 1, Centrum only 2, Neural arch only 3
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left	view 9

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE,
Context description	IRON AGE OR ROMAN INHUMATION
General comments	Sample ID
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	85559 (GU50645)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	1971
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	24
Primary early calibrated date range	-39
Primary late calibrated date range	76
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%