Living & Dying at Auldhame

by Anne Crone & Erlend Hindmarch, with Alex Woolf
 

Excavation on the headland at Auldhame has revealed one thousand years of burial activity and liturgical practice, the nature of which changed over the course of the millennium. It has charted the birth and death of a church, from a monastic settlement established in the seventh century AD, which then became a parish church in the twelfth century and ultimately ended its life in the seventeenth century AD as the burial aisle for its wealthy landowners. Undoubtedly, the most significant elements of the evidence from Auldhame are those for Anglian activity and for Norse contact. Between the mid-seventh and mid-ninth centuries AD a para-monastic community, associated with the Anglian saint Balthere flourished on the headland.

Dr Anne Crone is post-excavation project manager at AOC Archaeology Group, and was previously Vice-President of the Council for Scottish Archaeology. Watch Dr Anne Crone’s lecture to find out more about the excavation of Auldhame.

Dr Erlend Hindmarch is a project officer at AOC Archaeology Group.

Dr Alex Woolf is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Saint Andrews; he specialises in the history of early medieval Britain and Ireland.

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The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland gratefully acknowledges funding towards the publication of this volume from Historic Scotland and AOC Archaeology.