When I first heard earlier this week that around 60 skeletons had been found in Leeds suburb of Garforth where I grew up, I thought it sounded like the plot of another ‘Happy Valley’/ ‘Better’ gritty piece of Northern Noir crime drama.
It turns out instead to have been the discovery of a late Roman/ Early Anglo Saxon cemetery that could quite possibly shed valuable new light into understanding what happened in Britain as the Western Roman Empire collapsed and the Roman legions legged it home.
So, no need to call for Catherine Cawood or DI Lou Slack then- although if the latter found 60 skeletons in a field, she’d most likely just take a back hander from sinister crime boss played (wonderfully by Andrew Buchan) and turn a blind eye (no spoilers there – it’s there right from the start!)