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A plague pit is the informal term used to refer to mass graves in which victims of the Black Death were buried. The term is most often used to describe pits located in Great Britain, but can be applied to any place where Bubonic plague victims were buried.
eventually the normal patterns of burial and funerary observance broke down.
Major plague outbreaks
a half times their normal number, with 2,111 deaths overall and 1,427 attributed to plague.
Controversy
Some scientists have put forward the idea that the Black Death was not caused by yersinia pestis as some have thought, and some evidence of this has been found in plague pits, where other diseases, such as anthrax, have been discovered.
References
- "Burial of the plague dead in early modern London". History.ac.uk. Retrieved 2011-10-27.