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Location: Chester, Cheshire
Name and type: Chester Blackfriars, Dominican friary
Founded: 1236
Dissolved: 1538
References: Ward 1990
Database code: XBFC76
Excavations principally in the northern aisle of the church; several phases of church development complicate the picture. Forty-nine skeletons were analysed from 43 graves (including disarticulated material). Male to female ratio of the in situ group was 4.4M:1F (22:5). Of the burials 23% were subadults, and 16% were elderly (all five buried at the west end of the north aisle). Burial practice limited to three coffins and three stone cists. One signet ring found in a grave.