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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.

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Context number 767007
Parent context number 767007
Child context number(s) 767007
Group number 664 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ? Brampton West 2
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

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Human Remains

Inhumations
Preservation Age group Sex estimate Inhumation details
Good IU-neonate (Perinatal (=36 weeks preterm to 4 weeks post partrum) view

Inhumation details for object 891691


Truncated: 1
Sub sampled: 1
Cemetery name: UA
Comments: WELL PRESERVED BUT PARTIALLY COMPLETE NEONATE SKELETON AGED C. 37 WEEKS. COMPRISING R. DISTAL HUMERUS, PROXIMAL ULNAE, RADIAL SHAFT. R. ILIUM, FRAGMENTED FEMORA, TIBIAE AND FIBULAE. SEPARATED FROM ANIMAL BONE AT ANALYSIS. LIMITED CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION, DEPOSIT FROM PIT CLUSTER DATED (8.1 HIGH MEDIEVAL?). 23/08/22 C14 BETA ANALYTIC ULNA SHAFT (0.9G).

Inhumation pathology
Pathology code Disease Pathology Comments Pathology location(s) ?
1002 Blood Disorders Cribra orbitalia right view

9
1001 Blood Disorders Cribra orbitalia left view

9

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary
Sample number 0
State of preservation MODERATE
Weight 0.031g
Animal remains type(s) present
  • Cattle
  • Foetal or neonate bones
Number of bones large mammals20
Number of bones medium mammals1
Number of identifiable epiphyses20

Radiocarbon Dating

Sample materialBONE
Material typeHUMAN BONE
Context descriptionHUMAN BONE
General commentsNot enough collagen for CN measurement
Laboratory nameBETA
Laboratory sample codeBETA-637561
Uncalibrated date - Conventional radiocarbon age2040
Conventional radiocarbon age error range30
Primary early calibrated date range-151
Primary late calibrated date range62
Primary calibrated date range confidence95.4%
Secondary early calibrated date range-91
Secondary late calibrated date range15
Secondary calibrated date range confidence68.2%

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