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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.
Origin
The plague which swept across
Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, are estimated to have killed between one-third and two-thirds of
Europe's population. Disposal of the bodies of those who died presented huge problems for the authorities, and eventually the normal patterns of burial and funerary observance broke down, usually during the most severe epidemics.
Practices
At the start of the plague outbreak, parishes did the best they could to provide proper burials for their parishioners, but soon ran out of space and began to dig mass graves within the city. However, the plague was so devastating that soon, in late 1665, the group graves began to be dug outside the city. Often hundreds of bodies would be buried in a single location, as the risk of further infection from traditional
funerary rites was too great. It is unlikely, in the case of the Black Death, that this practice had any appreciable effect on slowing down the spread of the disease.
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