Finding a mass grave in England, while fairly uncommon, isn't unusual. The black death left its mark scattered throughout the countryside, clustered around churches and buried beneath the great cities. So when a new mass grave was found while a building company was working on the foundations for a new shopping centre they sent historians before police.
Sure enough the bones on top dated back to the mid 1300s and the state of the bones was about right for the plague and it all seemed perfectly normal until they dug a little deeper. The bones on top may have been ancient but the ones just beneath were so recent that remnants of flesh still clung around their joints, freezing their arms in an upwards reaching position.
They were known as plague angels from then on.
Nameless and clueless the police left the case as open as the arms of the recently deceased for the next forty odd years.
Sure enough the bones on top dated back to the mid 1300s and the state of the bones was about right for the plague and it all seemed perfectly normal until they dug a little deeper. The bones on top may have been ancient but the ones just beneath were so recent that remnants of flesh still clung around their joints, freezing their arms in an upwards reaching position.
They were known as plague angels from then on.
Nameless and clueless the police left the case as open as the arms of the recently deceased for the next forty odd years.
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