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You may have noticed our team of archaeologists out & about digging in College Yard of late. It's all part of the enabling phase of our wider landscaping project. With tree management & archaeological enabling work now complete, Fitzgerald Contractors Ltd have been appointed & are poised to start work onsite on Monday 16 September. The archaeological work has been undertaken by Worcestershire Archaeology, alongside the Cathedral team, and some fascinating clues to the past have been unearthed in the process. The College Yard area, on the north side of the Cathedral, was historically Worcester City’s burial ground for around 750 years, until the 19th Century. So, unsurprisingly the team has carefully excavated a small number of pre-Victorian skeletons, which will now be analysed before being sensitively re-interred in the Cathedral’s Charnel crypt. Amongst other findings are a Roman cobbled surface, quern stone for grinding flour, the neck of a blue glass perfume bottle and a decorative stamp made from a sheep bone. a 4th Century AD coin, hints of a long lost bell tower, structural remains, including an original Norman buttress, medieval painted glass and much more! Read more 👉 worcestercathedral.org.uk/news
