Liverpool Street Station stands on a plague pit, and Arnold reports that "when a bookshop in Oxford Street was rebuilt in the early 1920s, numbers of human bones were found eight feet down, not in rows, but buried indiscriminately, as if the bodies had been flung in." The Piccadilly Line between Knightsbridge and South Kensington is said to curve around "a pit so dense with human remains that it could not be tunnelled through". After the pestilence subsided, the land was swiftly reused the foundations of a mansion in Bishopsgate cut through bodies which could still be identified as male or female by their flesh.
A thousand people died in Stepney alone in one week coffins ran out, then burial plots soon cartloads of bodies were flung into pits, which could fill up in a couple of days.
The victims of the plague of 1665 rapidly overflowed existing provision. In times of plague and war, the dead definitely seem to be getting the upper hand.
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