Abstract
Rescue archaeological research was conducted in Vysoké Mýto (Pardubice Region, Czech Republic) in 2016-2017, in connection with the reconstruction of the town square around the Church of St. Lawrence.
The area had been used as a churchyard from the time when the town was established until ca the mid-16th century (when the cemetery was transferred outside the town walls). Apart from findings about the manners of burial more or less corresponding to the period customs, the research gave a more precise idea about the size of the churchyard, while an anthropological analysis brought the first information about the high-medieval - early modern age inhabitants of the town buried in the vicinity of the church, including evidence of a highly probable occurrence of syphilis.