Claire Cogar, Director of Archaeology at Iceni Projects discusses her project at the Cleveland St Workhouse. The Middlesex Hospital Annex was closed to patients in 2010, and the site was subject to an initial, unsuccessful, planning application to demolish the old Workhouse building for redevelopment of the site. In response to this, the Workhouse building was spot listed (Grade II), in recognition of its unique historic character, and the focus thus shifted away from any demolition and rebuilding to a more sustainable reuse of this important and unusual historic building.
In 2019 series of six targeted test trenches were excavated across the site to a depth of c.3m. Almost 60 human burials were recovered, relating to the preserved Workhouse, along with evidence relating to the earliest phases of the Workhouse construction.
Following this, almost a year of coordination and design work was undertaken with the development team.
Over 1,000 skeletons were excavated on site over the course of the following archaeological works, with many of the burials presenting with evidence of having undergone extensive dissection and autopsy, that has fundamentally changed our understanding of early medical practices in central London. Extensive structural remains relating to earlier phases of the Workhouse buildings, such as the kitchens and chapel, were also recorded.
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