EXCAVATION NEWS: Georgian coffeehouse, Cambridge, UK

Recent excavations of the cellar of a Georgian coffeehouse in Cambridge, UK have uncovered many hundreds of artefacts related to the business and it’s customers. The works took place ahead of building works by St John’s College, Cambridge. Archaeologist Craig Cessford, from Cambridge University’s archaeology unit stated that “coffeehouses were important social centres during the 18th century, but relatively few assemblages of archaeological evidence have been recovered and this is the first time that we have been able to study one in such depth” through the artefacts recovered, which ranged from tea and servingware to remnants of calves feet used to make jelly for patrons.

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