Cross Bones Graveyard: Honouring the Outcast

Cross Bones is an unconsecrated graveyard in south London that is the final resting place of around 15,000 bodies, mostly paupers and prostitutes. These are the outcast dead, unnamed and largely forgotten until construction workers began to unearth their bones in the early 1990s. A local urban Shama...

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Main Author: Harris, Adrian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2013]
In: Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 156-174
Further subjects:B graveyard
B roadside shrine
B Pagans
B Prostitutes
B Cross Bones
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