Archeologists Unearth Massive Medieval Plague Pit | Digging For Britain

In this episode of Digging for Britain, archaeologists are at Thornton Abbey, where they find a 14th-century mass grave holding numerous plague victims, revealing the catastrophic impact of the Black Death on monastic and local communities. Meanwhile, excavations in the Outer Hebrides have unearthed astonishing Stone Age pottery and evidence of an early Anglo-Saxon monastery is discovered at Lindisfarne.

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