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A watching brief and salvage excavation during construction work at Church Road, Eardisley, provided evidence of domestic village or town settlement from the twelfth century onwards, with an agricultural area to the east. Parts of two or more medieval buildings with stone footings were excavated, but the ground plans were not fully identified. There was also evidence for a property boundary and extensive pit digging. Settlement on the frontage ceased by the seventeenth century and possibly by the end of the fifteenth century and it was later used for agriculture. The project refines the understanding of the `urban form' of Eardisley as defined by the Central Marches Historic Towns Survey which stated that this area lay outside the settled area. Includes separately authored contributions on

The paper discusses the historical context of the seventeenth-century and later brick house Court of Noke, Staunton-on-Arrow, and its gardens, and questions a number of beliefs about the estate, uncovering a more complex tenure than has previously been allowed. The descriptive results of an archaeological assessment of the site, carried out as part of restoration work, are analysed, and the historical and archaeological evidence are collected together in order to suggest an interpretation of the chronological and spatial development of the formal garden and water features.

Short reports on archaeological investigations carried out in Herefordshire and neighbouring areas during 2001, arranged for the most part in alphabetical order by town or parish within sections for Hereford Cathedral; Archaeological Excavations Ltd; Archenfield Archaeology; Marches Archaeology; and Herefordshire Archaeology.

The report provides an overview of the subject of industrial archaeology since the 1950s, with particular reference to Herefordshire.