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Among the historical buildings of Aiud (Alba County) included on the Romanian cultural heritage list, there are the structures of “Bethlen Gábor” College. This high education institution was established in 1622 in Alba Iulia and was relocated to Aiud in 1662. The four buildings that form the College today were erected between 1720 and 1887 and their recent restoration and conservation included archaeological investigations. The excavations undertaken between 2012 and 2015 brought to light various masonry structures and archaeological materials dating to the Late Middle Ages and the Modern Age. The discoveries included old foundations, cellars and the flooring of two buildings dated before mid‑17th century. Notable were the foundations remains of a square‑shaped building complex, built between 1720 and 1743, which had a cellar in the southern section and a tower in the centre of the western section. There were also uncovered sections of a sewage system consisting of brickwork‑vaulted structures, three pits linked to urban housing contemporaneous to the building dated before mid‑17th century and a lime pit associated to the construction period of the latest buildings of the College. The archaeological finds were chronological assigned to the period between the 16th and the 19th centuries