30/12/2015
I was a medical student at Charterhouse Square, adjacent to Smithfield meat market - presumably "West" Smithfield. The square and adjacent lawn of College Hall was never built upon, and it was only in the early 1950s when they came across hundreds of skeletons when digging the foundations of the new college buildings that they realised this was the site of an old plague pit. The bones were then stored in the Anatomy Building. I wonder if they are still there?