Images from Archaeological Monitoring and Recording at St John's Hospital Chantry, Spitalgate Lane, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, October 2024

This collection comprises images from Archaeological Monitoring and Recording at St John's Hospital Chantry, Spitalgate Lane, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. The work was carried out by Cotswold Archaeology in October 2024. The programme of archaeological monitoring and recording took place during geotechnical investigation of the footings of the columns and walls of St John's Hospital Chantry. The stratigraphical units encountered across the site were consistent with alluvial deposits mapped by the British Geological Survey (BGS), comprising; river terrace deposits and alluvial deposits associated with the former course of the River Churn, and made ground. A deposit possibly representing an episode of ground make-up or levelling, undertaken prior to the construction of John's Hospital Chantry, was identified overlying these deposits in Test Pit 1, located in the north-eastern part of the standing building. The precise date of this deposit remains unclear, although environmental evidence recovered from this deposit indicates that it is of broad post-Roman date. Additionally, within the test pits, limestone foundations for two of the arcade columns, a half-column and walls at the eastern and western ends of the building were identified.