[Acrylic-bob]

I was watching Time Team earlier this evening. Yes I know it's facile and superficial but it is a marginal improvement on Songs of Praise and You've Been Framed. Anyway, it started me thinking. Since Accrington is a Saxon place name and there is some circumstantial evidence to suggest that the roots of the area may go back even further, it occured to me to wonder what had happened to all the people who had died in the borough between then and now.

Clearly some of them ended up in Church Kirk and some of them ended up in Altham, but in either case there are no grave markers that date back before the civil war. It is as though the hundreds of dead of the period 700ad to 1650-ish have just disappeared. Even if people died at the miserly rate of one per year that still represents 950 burials.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever mentioned coming across late saxon, norman or medieval burials in their gardens while they were digging the foundations for their conservatory.

So, where are they?