Plague victims in medieval mass grave were arranged with care by 'last chance' hospital's clergy
When you purchase through links on our site , we may garner an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Archaeologists in England recently uncovered new details about a medieval good deal burial of victims ofbubonic plague . When the so - calledBlack Deathswept through northern Lincolnshire during the middle of the fourteenth century , unbalanced and desperate hoi polloi turned to the nearby Thornton Abbey ’s hospital for forethought ....