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Field survey and trial trenches have revealed a dense occupation, between the Gallo-roman period and the eleventh century, of the plateau — in marked contrast to the post-medieval concentration of settlement in the valley of the Loire. At Rigny the 11th- and 12th -century church, along with its cemetery, remained in use until the cult was transferred to Ussé in the middle of the last century. The excavation revealed three phases in the layout of its immediate environs. In the Middle Ages the cemetery (of a so farunknown extent) completely surrounded the church, and the burials were interspersed with inhabited houses. Its extent was then progressively reduced : at the end 15th or the beginning ot the 16th century burials were restricted to a limited area, and the separation of the living and the dead emphasized by the construction of a wall between it and the newly-built vicarage the final phase, in the second halfot the eighteenth century, saw further burials confined to a new enclosure laid out on the south side of the church.
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