A 1,000-YEAR-OLD secret has accidentally been unearthed by a French man wanting to renovate his cellar.
In the dirt beneath his house lie dozens of medieval skeletons across 38 graves and 10 sarcophagi.
The skeletons are to be analysed in a laboratory, where specialists will determine their Sєx, age and living conditions.
Experts say the discovery proves that funerals were held well before the construction of chapels and churches.
The forgotten cemetery was used for seven centuries, between the 3rd and 10th centuries AD.
One of the sarcophagi found was topped by a block of soft, sculpted stone, which experts believe has a cross and rosette engraved on both sides
