diff --git a/dspace/CHANGES b/dspace/CHANGES
index a7e80cdfa4..b09d507795 100644
--- a/dspace/CHANGES
+++ b/dspace/CHANGES
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 - SF Patch #1659901 Import community and collection structure
 - SF Patch #1659837 ItemIterator now deals with item ids also
 - SF Patch #1659796 Create administrator wtih command line options
+- SF Patch #1659841 Add option to clear context object cache
 
 (Mike Judd)
 - SF Patch #1528142 Malformed OAI-PMH response: illegal bytes in UTF-8 for SF Bug #1490162
diff --git a/dspace/src/org/dspace/core/Context.java b/dspace/src/org/dspace/core/Context.java
index 614664656e..60cd24d635 100644
--- a/dspace/src/org/dspace/core/Context.java
+++ b/dspace/src/org/dspace/core/Context.java
@@ -321,6 +321,14 @@ public class Context
         objectCache.remove(key);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Remove all the objects from the object cache
+     */
+    public void clearCache()
+    {
+    	objectCache.clear();
+    }
+    
     /**
      * set membership in a special group
      *