Highlights Signatures of degraded body tissues, gut contents and microbial activity from grave soils. Spatial variation in signatures with anatomical location and features of burial environment. n-Alkanals reveal highly localised regions of anoxia. Grave chemistry and preservation of the skeletal remains has been impacted by an adjacent cess pit. Pedogenic spherulites record broad changes in redox conditions within the Roman grave.
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