16th Century Londoners' Remains Found at Bedlam 🏺

Crossrail archaeologists have unearthed the remains of patients from the infamous Bedlam Hospital, the world's first psychiatric asylum.



The skeletons, unearthed in the UK's largest archaeological site, belonged to a few of the 20,000 people interred in a burial ground established adjacent to the psychiatric asylum.
Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver said: "we've got a sixteenth century burial ground existing right below our feet in the road here, about two metres from where we're standing are the skeletons of perhaps up to four thousand people who live and died in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."
Some of the most delicate work involves remains from the Bedlam burial ground underneath what is now Liverpool Street as the city's medieval church graveyards filled up.
Centuries later, gravestones from the Bedlam cemetery were used as foundations of later buildings.