NOTE1850
Catacombs and Bone-houses
By ARUN.
Part I. of a *History of the Hundred of Rowell* by Paul Cypher (published by J. Ginns, Rowell,) has recently fallen in my way, and as I understand the writer is a medical gentleman residing in the village (or town), I condense from the account of the "Bone Caverns," p. 39-42., such particulars as may answer the Query of Rev. A. Gatty. The number of skeletons, as is asserted by those who have taken the trouble to calculate, is 30,000. The vault in which they are deposited is a long cryptiform structure, with a low groined roof, and the bones are carefully packed in alternate strata of skulls, a…
Topics: Bone Caverns, Historical Customs, Archaeology
Locations: Rowell, Naseby, Jesus Hospital