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Brian Dooks
THE Lord's Prayer was said in Anglo-Saxon, Latin and "Prayer Book English" yesterday as residents of a North Yorkshire market town gathered to honour a group of their ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago.
Young and old attended a service at St Mary's Church in Masham to re-bury 57 skeletons which were found 20 years ago when excavations were carried out to build new public toilets near the Little Market Place.
Carbon dating carried out last year by experts from Bradford University established that the people whose remains were found in what was confirmed as an Anglo-Scandinavian cemetery had lived between AD679 and 1011.
The Vicar of Masham and Healey, David Cleeves, told yesterday's service: "This is a unique occasion, respecting the fact...