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Bodies found from Londons Bedlam

Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the the city that once served as Londons most notorious psychiatric hospital,the original Bedlam. The bones are expected to give an insight into disease at the time. They were found while experts surveyed a site that is to become a new ticket hall for a Crossrail project.