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 53960

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Context Information

Context number 53960
Parent context number 53963
Child context number(s) None
Group number 296 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ? Alconbury 3
General Period of Feature Late Roman
A14 Area Alconbury (TEA05)
Associated digital archive MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at Alconbury Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081249

Context Sheet(s)

Original context sheets from A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire; Alconbury Landscape Block, TEA05, Contexts 053900-053999
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Pottery

Pottery Identification Number Form Fabric (Fabric Code)   Period   Vessel Information
6852 DRAG 18/31-B Les Martres-de-Veyre samian (LMV SA-B) Roman view

Vessel information for pot no. 6852

Vessel identification number: 5409
Number of fragments recovered: 1
Weight (in g): 16
Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 0
Rim diameter (in mm): 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: UNCERTAIN
Count of sherds collected from sample: 0


25114 - Nene Valley self-coloured ware (LNV SC-B) Roman view

Vessel information for pot no. 25114

Vessel identification number: 35113
Number of fragments recovered: 4
Weight (in g): 9
Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 0
Rim diameter (in mm): 0
Is pottery worn?: UNWORN
Is pottery abraided?: VERY
Broad forming method, i.e. wheelmade or hand-built. Designed for use with Iron Age and Roman Pottery only: UNCERTAIN
Count of sherds collected from sample: 0
Comments: ABRADED AND FRESHLY BROKEN, SHERDS FROM 53961 FLAGON ARE PROBABLY OF THE SAME VESSEL


25115 - Coarse sandy greyware, black surface (CSBLK-B) Roman view

Vessel information for pot no. 25115

Vessel identification number: 35114
Number of fragments recovered: 1
Weight (in g): 9
Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 0
Rim diameter (in mm): 0
Is pottery worn?: UNWORN
Is pottery abraided?: VERY
Broad forming method, i.e. wheelmade or hand-built. Designed for use with Iron Age and Roman Pottery only: UNCERTAIN
Count of sherds collected from sample: 0


Human Remains

Disarticulated human bone
Preservation Age group Sex estimate Comments
Good Adult Probable female view

ASSOC. ANIMAL BONE. ANALYSIS MH 24/08/2020 POSSIBLY RECORDED AS SAME NUMBER AS CREMATION BUT NO BURNT BONE FOUND IN POST EX? COMPRISES LARGE FRAGMENTS OF CRANIAL VAULT (UNBUNRT) LIKELY ASSOCIATED WITH ADULT DISTURBED BURIAL [53961],ALTHOUGH NO DIRECT ARTICUALTING ELEMENTS PRESENT. TRUNCATED BY STRIPPING AND LAND DRAIN.

Disarticulated bones
Bone number Bone type Bone segments Bone pathology
B17 Supraoccipital 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


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.
B4 Frontal 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


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.
B5 Parietal R 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


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.
view

Pathology locations for object 895172, bone no B5

Pathology code: 1010
Pathology: Porotic hyperostosis
Disease: Blood Disorders

B6 Parietal 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


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.
view

Pathology locations for object 895172, bone no B6

Pathology code: 1010
Pathology: Porotic hyperostosis
Disease: Blood Disorders

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Context Photographs