Britain’s ‘earliest hospital’ discovered

Archaeologists have uncovered a site that may house Britain’s earliest known hospital. Radio carbon analysis at the former Leper Hospital at St Mary Magdalen in Winchester, Hampshire, has provided a date range of AD 960-1030 for a series of burials, many exhibiting evidence of leprosy — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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