Medieval hospital built for victims of feared disease gives up long-buried secrets

Archaeologists in England have uncovered new remains at one of the country's oldest and largest medieval leprosy hospitals, hundreds of years after the disease ravaged communities across Britain.

The recent excavation, reported by British news agency Jam Press, centered on South Common in Lincoln, a historic English city roughly 140 miles north of London.

The site was once home to the Hospital of the Holy Innocents, which was founded between the late 11th and early 12th centuries.

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