Skeletons discovered at a former Oxford hospital site have revealed shocking new insights into the ‘brutal’ lives of 400 people.

Evidence of accidents, amputations, early surgical experiments and more was discovered in a closer analysis of bones excavated from the old Radcliffe Infirmary burial site, off Woodstock Road – now being developed by Oxford University.

The skeletons, which are practically all unidentified, form the largest collection of individuals to have been excavated from an 18th to 19th-century hospital burial ground in the country.

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Some of the remains date back more than 200 years and provide insight into hospital conditions in an era before anaesthesia, sterile operating theaters and antiseptics.

The burial ground was used for working-class patients who had died in the hospital and were not claimed for burial in their home parish.

Read more: Oxford Mail