Somerville College Kitchen and Servery Refurbishment, Oxford

Oxford Archaeology was commissioned by TMD Building Consultancy on
behalf of Somerville College to undertake archaeological watching brief for the
groundworks associated with the renovation of the kitchen and dining hall at
Somerville College, Oxford
Archaeological mitigation took place as an intermittent watching brief
depending on the principal contractor’s work programme between October
and December 2020.
The watching brief has shown that whilst untruncated natural gravel survives
within the site no significant archaeological deposits or features were
observed. The 19th-century garden soils and construction deposits associated
with the kitchen and dining hall recorded during the archaeological watching
brief are considered to be of low significance.