Dear Petar,

You can ask information from leprosy museums and graveyards

http://www.idealeprosydignity.org/LeprosyHeritage/Tracadie_sheila.html

http://www.idealeprosydignity.org/LeprosyHeritage/St_Jorgen.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichile%C8%99ti,_Tulcea

Have a look at medieval york, specific case of a young woman with leprosy who appeared to live and work in york also buried with general population. Sorry don't have ref. to hand, will try and dig it out

Try university of Glasgow, luoisa Cunningham, The walking dead. Challenging the image of the outcast leper using burial evidence from English medieval cities

Thank you Steven, I found a newspaper article about the woman but no relevant publication. I'll keep looking!

Petar,

this appears to be a case of non-isolated burial: M. Rubini and P. Zaio, Lepromatous leprosy in an early mediaeval cemetery in Central Italy (Morrione, Campochiaro, Molise, 6th–8th century AD), Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 12 (Dec. 2009): 2771-2779.

If you've not already done so, read this paper: Lee, C. 2008. ' forever young: child burial in anglo-Saxon England.' In Lewish-Simpson, S. (ed.) Northern World: Youth and Age in the Medieval North. Boston: Brill: 17-36.

Lee talks about special leper burials at various sites and child burials that were associated with them. 

You should find copy of paper at academia.edu

https://www.academia.edu/1843386/Tres_posibles_casos_de_lepra_en_la_Plaza_del_Castillo_Pamplona_Navarra_

Hay recogidos otros casos en cementerios medievales españoles

Hi Petar,

Happy New Year!

Numerous cemeteries from Germany, Sweden and Denmark have hog frequencies of burials of people who when they were alive suffered from leprosy. Using the epidemiological method for estimating leprosy frequency in cemetery samples that I have published in several papers in e.g. American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Anthropologischer Anzeiger frequencies of sufferers of leprosy (the unfortunate people suffering from leprosy prefers that we scientists do not use the stigmatizing term leper for them) have been found to range from 0 - 45 %. Many of the people who indeed suffered from leprosy in early stages when they died would in classical paleopathology not be classified as having the disease; but several of them would be.

In an unpublished study of the distribution of people who suffered from leprosy in the Tirup cemetery it has been found that the sufferers were distributed non-randomly on the cemetery; but there was no clear segregation.

Dear Petrac,

happy new year. For my personal experience in Italy there are only graveyard with lepers in normal cemetery at this moment. These are distributed in a chronological range that occur from the first millennium BCE (Casalecchio del Reno) to renaissance (Fornaciari et al.). There are tombs with lepers in roman age (Martellona, Palombara, Casale del Dolce) and in middle age (Campochiaro, Puglia, etc.). 

Best wishes and let me know if you have necessity of further information

Mauro

Cunningham's thesis is indeed available at academia.edu.  It is worth noting that she argues that in some English cases leprosaria and hospitals did not have their own cemeteries and buried their dead in the local churchyard.  That seems fairly unlikely to me, but would require good information about all local places caring for lepers to be able to rule it out.

Dear Petar,

at this moment, all the the leprosy cases from Italy came from "normal" cemetery. This situation is present in the first millennium BC as in first millennim AD. I do not know if this condition is casual or due to the scarce presence of the disease. For a survey can see on leprosy situation in Italy you can see Rubini and ZAio, 2009 JAS or Rubini et al. 214 HOMO

Roberta Gilchrist's Requiem: the Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain offers a survey of burial patterns that might be useful to you as comparative evidence. Some other reports from England and Ireland:

Bruintje, Tj. D. “The Auditory Ossicles in Human Skeletal Remains from a Leper Cemetery in Chichester, England.” Journal of Archaeological Science 17 (1990): 627-33.

Farley, Michael, and Manchester, Keith. “The Cemetery of the Leper Hospital of St. Margaret, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.” Medieval Archaeology 1 (1989): 82-89.

Buckley, Laureen, and Alan Hayden. “Excavations at St Stephen's Leper Hospital, Dublin: a summary account and an analysis of burials.” In: Medieval Dublin, III: Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2001, edited by Sean Duffy, 151-194. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002.

Catling, Christopher. “The Archaeology of Leprosy and the Black Death.” Current Archaeology 236 (2009): 22–9.

Gilchrist, Roberta. “Christian Bodies and Souls: The Archaeology of Life and Death in Later Medieval Hospitals.” In: Death in Towns: Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, 100-1600, edited by Steven Bassett, 101-118. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992.

Roffey, Simon. “Medieval Leper Hospitals in England: An Archaeological Perspective.” Medieval Archaeology 56 (2012): 203-33. (I attach here a copy.)

I confess that I myself have been frustrated by my inability to find many records of similar archaeological projects in Germany, though you might look at: 

Koch, Wilfred Maria. “Archäologischer Bericht 1988/1989: Das Leprosorium Aachen-Melaten. Vorbericht der Ausgrabungen 1988/89.” Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsvereins 96 (1989): 409-419.

Another example might be grave 18 in the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill, Cambridgeshire. It is published in Malim, T. and Hines, J., 1998 The Anglo–Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill (Barrington A), Cambridgeshire: excavations 1989–1991 and a summary catalogue of material from 19th century interventions, CBA Research Report 112. Council for British Archaeology, York.

It is availble from the ADS and Tim Malims' Academa profile Book The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Edix Hill (Barrington A), Cambridgeshire

Sorry, the link here is highjacked by ResearchGate where the file is not available, so for anyone interested in the book, go to his Academia profile