Derbyshire

The fifth and sixth years of excavation and environmental sampling of prehistoric features above Gardom's Edge were carried out between May and July 1999, and June and July 2000.  The aim of this project is to further interpretations of Peak District prehistory and to increase opportunities for public engagement with archaeology in the National Park.  The project is run jointly by the Archaeology Service of the Peak District National Park Authority and the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Sheffield, with the involvement of volunteers from the region.  The project has also acted as a focal point for a variety of associated on-site events and activities.

The second year of excavation and environmental sampling of prehistoric features above Gardom's
Edge was carried out in June of 1996. The aim of this project is to further the understanding of Peak
District prehistory and to raise public awareness of archaeology within the National Park. Run jointly
by the Peak National Park Authority and the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory at Sheffield
University, the project has also acted as a focal point for a variety of events and activities in the region.

Assessing the role of the enterprising middle-ranking widow amongst the urban elite in Derby, England, this open access article focuses on Mary Pickford, the contribution she made to the early textile industry, her political engagement, and her charitable concerns. The interrelated aspects of Pickford’s life simultaneously contributed to her social standing and to Derby’s economic development. The East Midlands was synonymous with the large-scale textile concerns of the Strutts and the Arkwrights about whom much has been written. Pickford’s moderately-sized business, however, is more representative of the majority about which far less is known. As such, an analysis of her activities, drawn from fragmentary sources, recognises the significance of the individual and the enmeshed nature of female involvement in urban life, thereby adding to a greater understanding of industrial and urban growth in the region.

The third year of excavation and environmental sampling of prehistoric features above Gardom's Edge was carried out in May and June of 1997. The aim of this project is to further the understanding of Peak District prehistory and to raise public awareness of archaeology within the National Park. Run jointly by the Archaeology Service of Peak District national Park Authority and the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory at Sheffield University, the project has also acted as a focal point for a variety of on-site events and activities.

The hill of Lea Wood stands, with its twin Bow Wood, on the east side of the Derwent Valley to the south of the industrial crucible of Cromford. It looms over the narrow defile of the Lea Brook and stands prominent over the villages around it. A known focus for medieval and post-medieval woodland industry, the summit of the hill is crowned by an enigmatic earthwork enclosure, hinting at activity in earlier centuries - and possibly millennia.

In spring 2017, a group of local volunteers, with support from the Heritage Lottery-funded DerwentWISE Landscape Partnership and Derbyshire County Council, mounted an archaeological investigation of the remains on Leawood Knoll. This volume tells the story of that project and the discoveries that were made.

The first year of a proposed three season excavation and environmental sampling project designed to investigate the rich variety of prehistoric features above Gardom's Edge near Baslow was carried out in June 1995. The aim of the project is to further the understanding of Peak District prehistory and to raise awareness of archaeology within the National Park through the excavations to which the general public and school groups are invited. The first season was designed to coincide with a Council of Europe initiative to celebrate the European Bronze Age. Other local events, to which the excavations were integral, included exhibitions at Sheffield City Museum, guided walks within the Peak District, conservation of rock art on Gardom's Edge, and a day school at Sheffield University. The excavations and restoration of stone features are a joint initiative undertaken by the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield and the Peak National Park Authority. The rock art conservation was undertaken by Sheffield City Museum.

The fourth year of excavation and environmental sampling of prehistoric features above Gardom's Edge was carried out between May and August of 1998. The aim of this project is to further interpretations of Peak District prehistory and to increase opportunities for public engagement with archaeology in the National Park. The project is run jointly by the Archaeology Service of the Peak District National Park Authority and the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory at the University of Sheffield with the involvement of volunteers from the region. The project has also acted as a focal point for a variety of associated on-site events and activities.

These two landscapes are separated by a distance of just over a mile and by over two hundred years of art. The two paintings differ greatly in appearance and relate to very different interests in landscape painting, the recent work being concerned with the act of painting itself and the painting as an object, in ways that would have been unconsidered by artists in the late eighteenth century. They also reflect different objectives in the depiction of human endeavour, labour. What the paintings have in common is their response to an area of landscape in midDerbyshire.

This research is an investigation of the locations of Late Neolithic
and Early Bronze Age round barrows in the Peak District. The work involved close examination of the barrows present around two earlier monuments: the Long Low bank barrow and the henge at Arbor Low. Using a Geographic Information System, it considered the densities of the barrows around these focal monuments, inter-visibility between the sites, and the distribution of distinctive artefacts in the surrounding area. The results raise important
questions about the role of memory in the past.