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Browse our interactive map of the plague pits in London, from the Black Death in the 14th century to the Great Plague in the 1600's.
Nov 2, 2015 · During this scourge, which killed an estimated 100,000, or a quarter of London’s population, piles of bodies were tossed into deep pits in unconsecrated ground. The corpses consigned to plague...
All of the bodies excavated from this “plague pit” contained exclusively the people who perished in London during the Black Death. The Bubonic Plague hit London in 1348 and ravaged the city until the spring of 1340.
Mar 20, 2013 · Deep beneath the surface of London’s Charterhouse Square, a grisly secret has been unearthed. Last week, thirteen bodies, neatly arranged in rows, were discovered by construction workers digging a shaft for the city’s new Crossrail project near Smithfield Market.
Aug 31, 2023 · This study explores the paleoepidemiology of the Black Death (1348–52 AD) mass graves from Hereford, England, via osteological analysis. Hereford plague mortality is evaluated in the local context of the medieval city and examined alongside other Black Death burials.
Thirteen bodies have been found so far in the 5.5m-wide shaft at the edge of Charterhouse Square, alongside pottery dated to the mid-14th Century. Analysis will shed light on the plague...
Feb 17, 2011 · At Rochester (Kent) men and women cast their dead children into communal graves 'from which arose such a stench that it was barely possible to go past a churchyard'. Modern excavation of such pits...
