Medieval mystery of 1300 skeletons under the University of Cambridge

#universityofcambridge #stjohnscollege #victorianera A piece of medieval history came to light only when a lecture hall belonging to a Cambridge college needed refurbishing. It was revealed that beneath it lay 1300 skeletons of the period 1195. This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 31 March 2015.

As history goes, some of the dead were sickly Cambridge University scholars, others homeless wayfarers or simply the infirm and, having fallen upon hard times, and being too poor to care for themselves, they landed up in the medieval Hospital of St John the Evangelist. The hospital had been set up in 1195 and the people came there in their last moments to receive spiritual succor.
Once they died, they were buried in the hospital's own cemetery.
The exact location and scale were a mystery for centuries and, the mystery has, now, been solved. A team of archaeologists were digging under the Old Divinity School. This was a building of the Victorian era and owned by St John's College. This college was founded in 1511 on the site of the hospital and, takes its name from it.
That is how the cemetery and the remains of 1,300 people was unearthed. It was a six-month operation and the team found some 400 almost perfectly preserved human skeletons and the partial remains of up to 900 more. All of them dated from the 13th to 15th centuries.

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