Living & Dying at Auldhame


Living & Dying at Auldhame

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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.


Author Anne Crone & Erlend Hindmarch, with Alex Woolf
Author Anne Crone, Erlend Hindmarch and Alex Woolf
Contributors John Barber; Melissa Melikian; Alice Blackwell; Dawn McLaren; Ewan Campbell; Penelope Walton Rogers
Contributors Andrew Heald; Caroline Paterson; Derek Hall; Fraser Hunter; Rob Engl; Ann MacSween; Jane Evans
Contributors Nicholas Holmes; Jackaline Robertson; Ruby Ceron-Carrasco; Lynne Roy; Morag Cross
Contributors John Barber; Melissa Melikian; Alice Blackwell; Dawn McLaren; Ewan Campbell; Penelope Walton Rogers; Andrew Heald; Caroline Paterson; Derek Hall; Fraser Hunter; Rob Engl; Ann MacSween; Jane Evans; Nicholas Holmes; Jackaline Robertson; Ruby Ceron-Carrasco; Lynne Roy; Morag Cross
Dimensions 286 x 220 mm
Dimensions 220 x 286 mm
Format Hardback
Format Hardback
Illustrations 91
ISBN 9781908332011
ISBN 9781908332011
Number of illustrations 91
Number of Pages 233
Number of pages 233
Publication date February 2016
Publication date 18 February 2016
Weight 1.45 kg
Weight 1.45kg

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