The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 127

The author discusses a number of unresolved questions about the past of Derbyshire, including the absence of archaeological evidence for human activity during the later part of the Bronze Age; the location of the Roman settlement and centre for the lead mining industry, Lutudarum; the history of the Risley Park lanx, including its disappearance and re-appearance having apparently been re-cast; the identity of the person originally associated with a sculptured Anglo-Saxon grave cover found re-used, and upside down, at the church of St Mary at Wirksworth; the relationship between Newbold and Chesterfield at the time of the Domesday Book, including the apparent absence of a church or priest at either place and the history and condition of the church in the manor of Chesterfield that was given to Lincoln in 1093; and the history of St Mary's church in Derby, founded before the Norman Conquest and presumed to have been demolished at some time around the sixteenth century.

Paper on a round mound identified within a pasture-field named Hull Bank, situated at the edge of a gravel-terrace within the floor of the Trent Valley, close to the Trent/Dove confluence. The paper discusses the implications of the fact that it had not previously been noted as being of archaeological interest.

Report on a project aimed at investigating the history of Staveley Hall, Derbyshire. The project consisted of presentations and visits to eleven local schools, a community archaeological excavation, and a search of published material and private archives, as well as the recording and restoration of the south wall of the Hall by removal of old render and replacement with lime mortar render. Seven evaluation trenches were excavated. Medieval activity on the site, possibly dating as far back as the eleventh century, was indicated by a number of ditch and gully features including a substantial rock-cut ditch. Bloomery ironworking and smithing was taking place on or close to the site during the medieval period. The remains of the seventeenth-century hall were encountered east and south of the surviving building, with substantial stone footings surviving in places and foundation trenches elsewhere. Significant terracing and levelling of the site had taken place in advance of construction. Later activity, involving further landscaping of the site during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was identified through a series of made ground deposits rich in industrial residues. Separately authored contributions include

Short, separately authored summaries of archaeological investigations carried out by ARCUS in Derbyshire during 2005, arranged in alphabetical order by town, parish or other location, including

Short, separately authored summaries of archaeological investigations carried out by Trent & Peak Archaeological Unit between 2004 and 2006, arranged in alphabetical order by town, parish or other location, including

The author investigates the history attached to an inscription in Swarkestone Church on the tomb of Richard Harpur (d. 1577) and his wife Jane (d.1597), sister ``and heyre'' of Thomas Fynderne.