Excavation on the headland at Auldhame has revealed 1000 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 7th century AD, which then became a parish church in the 12th century and ultimately ended its life in the 17th century AD as the burial aisle/mortuary chapel for its wealthy landowners.