Site of 'Britain's oldest hospital' uncovered
A site which may house Britain's earliest known hospital has been uncovered by archaeologists.
Radio carbon analysis at
the former Leper Hospital at St Mary Magdalen in Winchester, Hampshire, has provided
a date range of AD 960-1030 for a series of burials, many exhibiting evidence of leprosy, on the site.
A number of other artefacts, pits, and postholes also relate to the same time including what appears to be
a large sunken structure underneath a medieval infirmary.
Before this new claim, most historians and archaeologists thought that
hospitals in the Britain only dated from after the Norman conquest of 1066. Read more here:
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