Archaeologists find evidence that survivors of epidemic still used coffins and buried victims in Christian east-west position
In the summer of 1665,as the noteworthy plague ripped the heart out of the medieval city of London, people were still managing to bury the dead in coffins, or correctly aligned in the traditional Christian east-west position wherever possible,according to the evidence of newly excavated plague graves.
The proof from a plague pit at the Bethlem burial ground, where the final of 4000 skeletons are being excavated before a new Crossrail station is built beside Liverpool Street station, and contradicts apparent witness accounts of bodies having been thrown bare into pits.
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Source: theguardian.com