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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 731277

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Context Information

Context number	731277
Parent context number	731275
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	171 (Ditch), Subgroup number: 2
Land use interpretation	Enclosure (E1)
Settlement ?	Brampton West 1
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age
A14 Area	Brampton West (TEA07)
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 731277
Filename	A14-TEA07-CN731277.pdf (111 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Brampton West Context Sheets (731000-731999)		PDF	Download

Finds

Small Find Number	Object Type	Material	Period of Find	More Information	Find Photograph
7227	Loom Weight	Ceramic	Iron Age	view Find Information for small find number 7227 Object: Loom Weight Accession number: 7227 Material: Ceramic Material species: Unidentified Species Function: Manufacture or working of textiles Small find period: Iron Age Period of stratigraphy: Iron Age Early date: 0 Late date: 0 Typology: TRIANGULAR Description: Near Complete; H 147mm; W 161mm; Th 71.5mm; int Diam perfs 11-20mm; Wt 1617g. Fired-clay triangular loomweight, one corner damaged but with joining fragments; biconical perforations across the three corners from edge to edge, remarkably irregular and with some showing signs of being formed by stabbing at the clay and others having lips/deep worn grooves around edge. Oxidised coarse fabric with reduced patches, sand and flint inclusions. Completeness: NC Weight: 1606g Count of fragments: 3 Estimated number of vessels represented by this material: 1 Method of recovery: Unrecorded - Default assumption is hand collected Was the object discovered during survey?: 0 Does the object fall under the treasure act?: 0 the object has been discarded?: 0	Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 7227 Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 7227 [DOWNLOAD] right-click and save link View file information Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 7227 Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 7227 [DOWNLOAD] right-click and save link View file information
70227	Unidentified	Ceramic	Unknown	view Find Information for small find number 70227 Object: Unidentified Accession number: 70227 Material: Ceramic Function: Unknown or uncertain function test Small find period: Unknown Period of stratigraphy: Iron Age Early date: 0 Late date: 0 Count of fragments: 1 Method of recovery: Unrecorded - Default assumption is hand collected Was the object discovered during survey?: 0 Does the object fall under the treasure act?: 0 the object has been discarded?: 0	Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 70227 Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 70227 [DOWNLOAD] right-click and save link View file information
76205	Loom Weight	Ceramic	Iron Age	view Find Information for small find number 76205 Object: Loom Weight Accession number: 76205 Material: Ceramic Function: Manufacture or working of textiles Small find period: Iron Age Period of stratigraphy: Iron Age Early date: 0 Late date: 0 Typology: TRIANGULAR Description: Incomplete; Wt 1965g. 26 fragments of fired clay representing two triangular loomweights. Some calcareous and flint inclusions. Convervation notes: LIZ G: ACTUALLY 2 TRIANGULAR LOOMWEIGHTS Completeness: IC Weight: 1965g Count of fragments: 26 Estimated vessel equivalents represented by this material: 0.0 Estimated number of vessels represented by this material: 1 Method of recovery: Unrecorded - Default assumption is hand collected Was the object discovered during survey?: 0 Does the object fall under the treasure act?: 0 the object has been discarded?: 0	Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 76205 Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 76205 [DOWNLOAD] right-click and save link View file information
70227	Unidentified	Ceramic	Unknown	view Find Information for small find number 70227 Object: Unidentified Accession number: 70227 Material: Ceramic Function: Unknown or uncertain function test Small find period: Unknown Period of stratigraphy: Iron Age Early date: 0 Late date: 0 Count of fragments: 1 Method of recovery: Unrecorded - Default assumption is hand collected Was the object discovered during survey?: 0 Does the object fall under the treasure act?: 0 the object has been discarded?: 0	Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 70227 Post excavation photograph of Small Find Number 70227 [DOWNLOAD] right-click and save link View file information

Building Material

Fabric	Form	Material	Number of Pieces Recovered and Weight	Fabric Dates	Comments
Daub	Unkown	Daub	0 (1981g)		view ASSESSMENT: WEIGHT ONLY, GENERIC DAUB FABRIC CODE USED.

Human Remains

Disarticulated human bone

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Comments
Good	Adult	Probable female

Disarticulated bones

Bone number	Bone type	Bone segments	Bone pathology
B3	Frontal 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.
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.

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Sample number	0
State of preservation	MODERATE
Weight	0.005g
Number of bones medium mammals	5