Nice ! Crossrail uncover burial site

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This was apparently the grounds of the Bethlem Hospice, one of the first asylums, however this, and a number of nearby places were used to bury those that died from the various plagues before (and after) the building was relocated around 1675.

Though the immediate incentive was the fear of an excessive number of plague dead, and the New Churchyard was certainly used for many burials in later epidemics, it was also used extensively in non-plague years by a number of parishes with limited local accommodation, and remained in use to the mid-eighteenth century.

Over-use of the New Churchyard in 1665 produced a new crisis. The 'noisome stenches arising from the great number of dead' buried there, together with the plea from many parishes that their own churchyards were now full, forced the Mayor and Aldermen to seek new accommodation


_http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/epiharding.html

A blog on the current work

_http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mindthegap/2011/04/unearthing_the_crossrail_skele.html]BBC - Mind The Gap: Unearthing the Crossrail skeletons
 
I used to work there, and there would often be the odd spooky tale of the Black Death Cemeteries told down the pub!
 
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