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More than 400 bodies were beneath a Cambridge building. πŸ’€
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Creepy DiscoveriesSep 18, 2026

More than 400 bodies were beneath a Cambridge building. πŸ’€

More than 400 bodies were beneath a Cambridge building. πŸ’€ . . . Between 2010 and 2012, archaeologists excavated under the Old Divinity School and exposed complete medieval burials. The cemetery served the Hospital of St John the Evangelist and once held about 1,300 graves. Centuries of scholarship had been standing over a hospital’s dead.

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University of Cambridge, 2015, ''One of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds in Britain' uncovered at Cambridge University'

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