A Birchington farmer made an unusual discovery on Sunday when he found a skeleton buried beneath one of his fields.

The area is believed to have been used as a burial ground more than 800 years ago and archaeologists have now been called in to conduct a detailed examination of the site.

Officers from Kent Police also took a bone sample to allow the skeleton to be scientifically dated.

The find is the latest in a string of fascinating discoveries in the Thanet area.

In March 2008, experts found the 4,000-year-old remains of a Bronze Age man during a dig near Monkton.

English Heritage archaeologists also unearthed a stretch of Kent coastline dating back more than 2,000 years at Richborough Roman Fort near Sandwich last autumn.