Seven skeletons have been discovered in graves beneath a Lindisfarne car park during construction work.
The graves were found before the new year by Northumberland County Council archaeologists during work to install a new water pipe.
Speaking at Wednesday's meeting of the Ashington and Blyth Local Area Council, assistant county archaeologist Nick Best told councillors about the findings.
He said: "This is a hot off the press find from just before the new year under the former car park which is now a coach park. Teams uncovered a group of burials of at least seven individuals.
"The assumption is there is probably more. We haven't dated them yet, but they might be medieval it's very likely they're medieval and there's a chance they could be very early medieval.
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