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Funnyman Hugh Dennis has opened a town’s new archaeology gallery. The radio and TV presenter, known for Radio 4’s Now Show among others, was at Maidstone Museum in St Faith’s Street, to open the Lives in Our Landscape gallery. Mr Dennis has a strong interest in archaeology and heritage issues after filming three series of The Great British Dig for Channel 4 and investigating nearly 30 dig sites. He also has a link to the County Town in that the pilot episode for the series excavated a Roman site in Lower Fant, in Maidstone, in 2019. Mr Dennis said: “I’d heard about the progress of the new Live…

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