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Editor: Roly Smith, 33 Park Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AX Tel: 01629 812034; email: roly.smith@btconnect.com
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Derbyshire Archaeology Advisory Committee
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Creswell Crags Heritage Trust Derbyshire Archaeological Society Derbyshire County Council Derby Museums Trust Historic England (East Midlands) Hunter Archaeological Society University of Manchester Archaeology Department University of Nottingham Peak District Mines Historical Society Peak District National Park Authority Portable Antiquities Scheme Museums Sheffield University of Sheffield, Department of Archaeology South Derbyshire District Council
ACID
ISSUE 19 JANUARY 2022
Archaeology and Conservation in Derbyshire and the Peak District
Scout’s honour
New archaeology badge
Inside:
The aerial archaeologist
Learning to live with Covid Celebrating Park’s anniversary
Our year in numbers and pictures
Morgause Lomas with the new archaeology badge for Derbyshire Scouts at Peveril Castle (see page12)
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Archaeology and Conservation in Derbyshire and the Peak District is supported by Derbyshire County Council and the Peak District National Park Authority
Covid or not, the work goes on
It has been difficult to make predictions recently, but I can confidently predict that you will find much of interest in this edition of ACID. It is wonderful to see how the work of archaeological and heritage organisatio
Martha Jasko-Lawrence
Chair of the Derbyshire Archaeological Advisory Committee
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2 Foreword
Martha Jasko-Lawrence, chair of the Derbyshire Archaeological Advisory Committee
4 Learning to live with lockdown
Natalie Ward reflects on a difficult period for those working in the heritage sector
6 Celebrating the first 70 years
The Peak District National Park marked its 70th birthday last year. Anna Badcock describes some of the ways in which it was celebrated
8 Identifying Derbyshire’s special landscapes
Sarah Whiteley reports on a new holistic approach to recording historic landscape character in Derbyshire
10 New light on Iron Age Derbyshire
Steve Malone and Kris Poole discover new evidence of the Iron Age in eastern Derbyshire
12 Scout’s honour (cover story)
Morgause Lomas describes how she came up with a new archaeology badge for Derbyshire Scouts
13 What they ate in medieval Derby
Richard Gregory on a long-awaited report which reveals some fascinating details about the diet of medieval Derbeians
14 Haddon’s lost village
Surveys by University of Sheffield students have provided new insights into the deserted medieval village of Nether Haddon. Report by Colin Merrony and Tom Millington
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15 Mam Tor magnified
Colin Morrony of the University of Sheffield describes how a new survey of the Mam Tor has shed a startling new light on the hillfort
16 The aerial archaeologist
Ben Robinson, TV’s archaeologist in the sky, tells editor Roly Smith how it all began
18 Monitoring heritage sites from the air
Helen Malbon describes how aerial technology is revealing new aspects of sensitive archaeological sites
20 A Day in the Life of… a building conservation officer
Helen Carrington describes her work with the Peak District National Park, from rope-access cradle to graves
21 Find of the Year: The face of the rebel ‘Emperor of the North’
Meghan King nominates her ‘Find of the Year’
22 New light on Roman and Medieval Bolsover
Gavin Kinsley reports on his new investigation of a multi-age site in Bolsover
23 Life on the Edge
Elin Price delves into the life and work of the Cracken Edge Quarry
24 Managing the Dove in the Middle Ages
Kristina Krawiec describes how a diversion of the Dove uncovered fascinating clues about medieval river management
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25 Curating our cultural heritage
South West Peak Cultural Heritage Officer Catherine Parker Heath looks back on four years of achievement
26 News
News from round the county
28 Laying siege to the vegetable patch
Kit Bailey of the Peak District Young Archaeologists’ Club did not let the lockdown dampen his enthusiasm
29 Navio and life at the edge of Rome
Following the recent excavations at Navio, Ros Westwood of Buxton Museum looks back at Roman Derbyshire
30 Zooming in on history
The lockdown didn’t stop the Derbyshire Archaeological Society’s lectures, as Ian Michell reveals
31 The search for Sir John’s “mighty howse”
Maxwell Skipp describes the search for a medieval knight’s home
32 A century of fieldwork
Looking back on the work of the Hunter Archaeological Society
33 Bookshelf
Roly Smith reviews the latest books on the county
34 Our year in numbers
Planning and heritage statistics
35 Our year in pictures
A pictorial selection of some of the things we’ve been up to
36 Picturing the Past:
Pilsbury Castle Hills
