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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 731503

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Context Information

Context number	731503
Parent context number	731504
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	151 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	Brampton West 1
General Period of Feature	Middle-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 731503
Filename	A14-TEA07-CN731503.pdf (112 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Brampton West Context Sheets (731000-731999)		PDF	Download

Human Remains

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Poor	Unclassified adult (>18 years)	Undetermined	view Inhumation details for object 84378 Truncated: 1 Sub sampled: 1 Comments: FROM TEA 7B & C. ANALYSIS MH 15/09/20. INHUMATION BURIAL [731503] FROM GRAVE FILL [731504]/ CUT [?] POSSIBLY CROUCHED WITH LEGS BENT AT KNEES. HEAVILY FRAGMENTED AND DEGRADED BONES, TORSO, APPENDAGES ABSENT, DAMAGED BY MACHINE. BURIED ON N-S ORIENTATION WITH HEAD TO N FACING SE?. POSSIBLY SUPINE. C14 SAMPLE. Pathology comments: NONE

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left	view 9
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right	view 9

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample material	BONE
Material type	HUMAN BONE
Context description	INHUMATION BURIAL.
Laboratory name	SUERC
Laboratory sample code	97731 (GU57416)
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age	2138
Conventional radiocarbon age error range	25
Delta 13C (δ13C stable isotope)	-20.8
Delta 15N (δ15N stable isotope)	10.4
Primary early calibrated date range	-348
Primary late calibrated date range	-53
Primary calibrated date range confidence	95.4%
Secondary early calibrated date range	-339
Secondary late calibrated date range	-110
Secondary calibrated date range confidence	68.3%