The Black Death cemetery, East Smithfield, London

Resource type
Book
Creator (person)
Grainger, Ian
Hawkins, Duncan
Cowal, Lynne
Mikulski, Richard
Date published
2008
Abstract
The East Smithfield Black Death cemetery was excavated in 1986–8 as part of the Royal Mint site. Founded in 1348/9, it was one of two emergency burial grounds established when the Black Death plague came to London. This report presents the results from the only large-scale excavation and post-excavation analysis of a proven Black Death cemetery in this country and is indisputably of international importance in terms of its archaeology and the human bone assemblage derived from the c 759 burials found. The burial practices and the cemetery population are analysed and discussed in relation to Black Death studies in London and elsewhere.
Publisher
MOLA
Place of publication
London, UK
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In Copyright