After Cromwell's victory at Dunbar in September 1650, thousands of Scottish prisoners were force-marched to Durham where they were imprisoned in the cathedral. Mortality was catastrophic — disease and cold killed perhaps a third of them. Recent archaeological excavations in Durham have uncovered their burial site
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