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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 602055

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Context Information

Context number	602055
Parent context number	602056
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	204 (Ditch)
Settlement ?	Brampton West 102
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age
A14 Area	Brampton West (TEA10)
Associated digital archive	MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at Brampton West Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081252

Context Sheet(s)

Context sheet for context 602055
Filename	A14-TEA10-CN602055.pdf (94 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Brampton West Context Sheets (602000-602349)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Disarticulated human bone

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Comments
Good	Perinatal		view MODERATELY WELL PRESERVED (MISSING PROXIMAL AND DISTAL ENDS) RIGHT AND LEFT HUMARAL MIDSHAFT (PAIRED) OF A PROBABLE NEONATE INDIVIDUAL FROM FILL OF DITCH [602056] ALSO CONTAINING ANIMAL BONE AND POTTERY, CHARCOAL

Disarticulated bones

Bone number	Bone type	Bone segments	Bone pathology
B42	Humerus R	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: Bone segment 3: 0 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.
B43	Humerus L	view Bone segment 1: 0 Bone segment 2: Bone segment 3: 0 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 number	0
State of preservation	MIXED
Weight	0.099g
Animal remains type(s) present	Cattle Sheep or Goat Foetal or neonate bones
Number of bones large mammals	9
Number of bones medium mammals	5
Number of identifiable epiphyses	2

Animal bones

Bone Species	Quantity of Bone for Species	Bone Type and Part(s)	More information
Cattle	2	Metatarsal (1 Proximal) =Cq=Cent.Tars=Naviculo-Cuboid (1 Whole Bone)	view More Information on Cattle Bones in Context 602055 Bone number 1522 Unique number assigned to bone: 1522 Type of species: CATTLE Type of bone: =CQ=CENT.TARS=NAVICULO-CUBOID 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 Side of the animal from which the bone came from (l or r): L State of fusion at the proximal end of the bone [codes: F = fused. U = unfused. VO = fused but fuse line open. VC = fused but fuse line closed]: F State of fusion at the distal end of the bone [codes: F = fused. U = unfused. VO = fused but fuse line open. VC = fused but fuse line closed]: F Modification data for bone number 1522 Common or English name of the species: CATTLE Code for name of bone: TRC Number of fragments recovered: 1 State of the bone concerned: Burning Description of fragment/bone: 3 KN ANT Bone number 1523 Unique number assigned to bone: 1523 Type of species: CATTLE Type of bone: METATARSAL part of bone present: PROXIMAL Proportion of the animal present in a range of 1-5 : 2 Number of fragments recovered: 2 Weight (in g): 0 Side of the animal from which the bone came from (l or r): L Bone area(s) These are numbers assigned to areas of a bone that are identifiable to species, skeletal element and body-side even when the bone is heavily fragmented. The allocation of zones to specific bones varies; this system was devised by James Rackham and provides a useful brief description of what part of a bone is present. Contact MOLA specialists for more information: Z1 Z5 Zoological comment on zones: PX BREAK
Unidentifiable Species	1	Unidentified (1 Fragment)	view More Information on Unidentifiable Species Bones in Context 602055 Bone number 1524 Unique number assigned to bone: 1524 Type of species: UNIDENTIFIABLE SPECIES 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: 9 Weight (in g): 0 Zoological comment on zones: UNID FRAGS D