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ANCIENT skeletons found in an Anglo-Scandinavian Christian cemetery under a market town have been reburied 900 years after they were first interred.
Archaeologists found 57 bodies dating from between 679AD and 1011AD buried beneath Masham, near Ripon, North Yorkshire.
They were unearthed in the late Eighties as building works took place close to the Little Market Place. Mystery surrounds why they were buried on that site.
Sixty people joined a procession to St Mary's Church, Masham, for a burial service yesterday.
Kevin Cale, director of Community Archaeology, was involved in the excavations. He said: "I am very pleased that the service has come about as I had been hoping for something like this since we found them.
"Iam delighted that so...