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.

Origin

The plague which swept across Europe in the 14th century is estimated to have killed between one-third and two-thirds of Europe's population^[1][2][3]. 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.

References

External links

• Q and A about the Great Plague
• Burial of the plague dead in early modern London

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