Where did all the bodies go & why?
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“In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a succession of wars ravaged Europe. Massive armies squared off and massacred each other using cannon and rifle fire and mass cavalry charges that claimed tens of thousands of casualties in hours. At the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte’s final battle, more than 10,000 men and as many horses were killed in a single day.
Yet today, archaeologists often struggle to find physical evidence of the dead from that bloody time period”
Bodies were often covered with lime in those days which I believe is alkaline.
They were probably not buried too deeply which leaves them vulnerable to scavengers including the two legged variety, insects and worms, on top of this modern farming techniques would put paid to a lot of evidence.
All the above is just my thinking out loud but I do know that victims of the plague were buried in lead coffins on an island on the Medway – Dead mans Island, we were always finding bones and I know of people who salvaged the lead. the coffins were regularly exposed by the coastal erosion.
I sure it will be on Google etc.
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