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Archaeologists unexpectedly uncover hundreds of skeletons, medieval church beneath university campus
Archaeologists were astonished to uncover hundreds of skeletons while excavating the grounds of a British university, which once hosted a medieval church demolished in the 1650s.
Further excavations revealed approximately 170 earlier burials, the majority of which are provisionally thought to relate to ...
However, outside the vaults, archaeologists uncovered about 150 post-medieval burials in the courtyard, and another 170 ...
Archaeologists unexpectedly uncover hundreds of skeletons, medieval church beneath university campus
It dated back to the Middle Ages. The excavators found "limestone ... the majority of which are provisionally thought to relate to the medieval church." In total, 317 skeletons and 83 brick ...
A medieval church and burials were discovered as a university transforms a shopping center into an urban campus in the U.K. Mikal Ludlow Photography University of Gloucestershire Excavations in ...
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