The finds were made at a 19th-century site in New Cove Garden Market. News reports and social media anxiety can make us feel that life is hard in Britain today, but the extraordinary finds from a new archaeological dig have provided a salutary reminder that, a couple of centuries ago, it was much worse. Archaeologists working at an early 19th-century burial site in New Covent Garden market, south-west London, where around 100 bones were found, have said they contain evidence of hard work, including violence, a coronavirus outbreak, epidemic disease, physical deformities, malformations and cardiovascular disease. The Burial offers an…
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