Black Death burial pit found at site of medieval abbey in Lincolnshire

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... dna-plague

Dr Hugh Willmott, from the University of Sheffield’s department of archaeology, has been working on the Lincolnshire site since 2011 and directed the excavations. He said: “The finding of a previously unknown and completely unexpected mass burial dating to this period in a quiet corner of rural Lincolnshire is thus far unique, and sheds light into the real difficulties faced by a small community ill-prepared to face such a devastating threat.”

Explaining why more such sites have not been found before, Willmott said one reason was that despite the number of plague deaths, communities were determined to give people a proper burial, normally in the parish churchyard.

“Mass burials are a signal of when the system has broken down,” he said. “This community had obviously reached a point where it could not cope.”

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I just got déjà vu.