20000 corpses found hidden in London IMH

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Here lie England's oldest tortured souls: Bedlam psychiatric hospital graveyard dug up for new Crossrail stations
25 MAY 2015 12:42 AM BY JAMIE*LEWIS
The gruesome images reflect the brutal way in which the mentally ill were treated in the early days of mental health treatment
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These images show the grim remains of some of England's most tortured souls in history.

Excavations to retrieve as many of the suspected 20,000 corpses from the original site of London's infamous Bethlem Psychiatric Hospital (better known by its nickname, Bedlam) as possible.

These long-undisturbed bones give clues to, not only how many of the patients died, but how poorly treated the mentally ill were in the early days of psychiatric treatment.


Part of a skeleton excavated from the Bedlam burial ground
Archaeologists have been working on the painstaking excavation for months in preparation for London's new Crossrail line .


The skeletons will be washed, stored and itemised until they are needed for research or scientific purposes.

Bedlam was Europe's first psychiatric hospital, originally used for "storage" for the insane, where brutality was systemic and gory tests were routinely performed on the mentally ill.


Human remains are prepared in a drying room by Chris Gerontinis, an archaeologist at the Museum of London
The site, under the south-east corner of what is now Liverpool Street Station, is set to be cleared to allow for the opening of the Crossrail in 2018.

Crossrail is Britain's largest construction project and has sparked this dig, which is the biggest archaeological project for decades.


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