The comedian Hugh Dennis is filming in Masham this week for a Channel 4 programme that aims to uncover more about the town’s ‘lost cemetery’.
Mr Dennis is expected to be in the North Yorkshire town for another couple of days filming for The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Garden.
It follows numerous discoveries of Anglo-Scandinavian skeletons dating back to between 679 and 1011 AD around the centre of the market town.
Building works in 1988 and 1999 uncovered the remains of 58 skeletons.
Many locals believe there is much more to discover.
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Neil McIntosh, who works in tourist information for Visit Masham, told the Stray Ferret:
“This is fertile ground for excavations. So far we have only found just over 50 skeletons but if the cemetery was in use for more than 300 years there will be plenty more to find.”
Mr McIntosh says the crew for the programme is digging up the garden of a former butcher.
He added that the show could find some animal bones as well as human remains from hundreds of years ago.
