Maps elsewhere

At the Times of London site: a Google Map of historic graves found in London.

... Another skeleton was found with a metal spike lodged in its spine. Its owner, a man who was buried in Smithfield, East London, in about 1350, was probably hit with an arrow or spear, but the attack did not kill him. He survived only to catch bubonic plague in his late thirties or early forties. “Somehow the injury didn't cause an infection,” Mr White said. “The body has reacted by building bone around the projectile. He survived for months or possibly years. He was found in a large plot of land set aside for burying victims of the Black Death.” It is not known why the man was attacked, but it is thought that he may have been a soldier in the Hundred Years War.

Unfortunately, the public will not get a chance to see one of the most bizarre finds. Archaeologists exploring a graveyard at St Pancras stumbled across a coffin containing a mysterious set of bones. They were later identified as belonging to a walrus. An explanation for the animal's dignified burial has not yet surfaced.

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I very much like the way they've embedded the map in their article template - I need to find out if we can do that ourselves. An embedded map (like the ones produced by MyMaps) seems to crash Typepad, which is a pity.