Congratulations @peelbacklayers for your special commendation at last nights East Midlands Heritage Awards. pic.twitter.com/A9Ek3CxqoN — Peak Chief Executive (@PeakChief) November 10, 2017 Well, last Friday Catherine and I went to our first awards ceremony! This was the 2017 East Midlands Heritage Awards supported by the East Midlands Museums Service and The Mighty Creatives. We were invited to join in the fun by the Tudor Farming Interpretation Group (TFIG) a group of the vo

Now that the summer is just a distant memory many people think that archaeologists move indoors and do other things. Well, in part they do. The project we have been involved in – Peeling Back The Layers – has reached the stage where we are analysing finds, writing reports and working on producing new workshops for local schools to update them on the project. The pottery that we found had been examined by Jon Goodwin over in Stoke-on-Trent where he is Senior Planning Officer r

Well, what a busy time it’s been over here as we’ve had two projects running – Peeling Back the Layers and Arbor Low Environs Project. These have seen us excavating with community groups, volunteers and of course schoolchildren. Peeling Back the Layers is a community archaeology project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Council for British Archaeology, the Peak District National Park and English Heritage. We have been exploring the history and archaeology of a small fa