Archaeological Monitoring in The Porter's Lodge and Fellow's Garden, Jesus College, Cambridge

Abstract

Archaeological monitoring and historic building recording was undertaken during the redevelopment of the Porter's Lodge at Jesus College, Cambridge. In the first instance, archaeological monitoring was undertaken across the college grounds during the installation of services in the Fellow's Garden (115m of trenching) and the Orchard (190m of trenching). A sequence of deposits associated with several episodes of landscaping activity was identified, and material culture spanning the Romano-British to Modern periods recovered. Secondly, within the college's Grade I-listed early 16th-century South Range, historic building recording identified the range's original blocked southern doorway and the footings and scar of its original eastern staircase. A partially surviving fireplace of c. 1570 was also recorded.