SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
8-7-13
tags: archaeology, Telegraph (UK), London, Bedlam hospital, psychiatry
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8-7-13
Remains of 16th century Londoners found in Bedlam burial ground
Breaking Newstags: archaeology, Telegraph (UK), London, Bedlam hospital, psychiatry
Crossrail archaeologists have unearthed the remains of patients from the infamous Bedlam Hospital, the world's first psychiatric asylum.
The skeletons, unearthed in the UK's largest archaeological site, belonged to a few of the 20,000 people interred in a burial ground established adjacent to the psychiatric asylum.
Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver said: "we've got a sixteenth century burial ground existing right below our feet in the road here, about two metres from where we're standing are the skeletons of perhaps up to four thousand people who live and died in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."...
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