This unique footage shows the excavation of a mass burial pit underway at the site of Crossrail's Liverpool Street Broadgate ticket hall in August 2015.

Using an innovative 360-degree video capture, the short film lets viewers step into the shoes of archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) who are carefully excavating the burial. Watch this video on the latest version of Chrome or Firefox on desktop or laptop and use your mouse or the control panel in the top left-hand corner to scroll around the image. On mobile or tablet devices, use the latest version of the YouTube app for Android or iOS and scroll around the video using your touch screen, or by moving the device left, right, up or down.

The site is the Bedlam Burial Ground which dates between 1569 and 1738. Using an innovative 360-degree video capture, the film shows archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) carefully revealing a mass burial, most likely made at the height of one of the 17th-century plague outbreaks.

The burial could date to the Great plague of 1665. The scientific study of the individuals buried here - around 30 individual skeletons - should reveal if the bubonic plague was the cause of death.

The burials all appear to have been made on the same day, and all in thin wooden coffins that were stacked up in the pit. The coffins have collapsed and rotted, giving the appearance of a slumped and distorted mass grave.

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Video released in 2015

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