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Author: | Bluebonnet [ Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:36 am ] |
Post subject: | 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: http://tinyurl.com/2ambmwm |
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