Exploring the Charterhouse Plague Pit

The Charterhouse Plague Pit was first unearthed in March 2013 during construction on the Crossrail project [1]. Charterhouse lies between Clerkenwell and Smithfield, just north of the City of London. The area is allegedly rife with plague pits, and research revealed that the Charterhouse skeletons dated back to the 1348 outbreak of plague; an outbreak that...

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Published on June 02, 2016 05:45
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