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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I have worked in Derbyshire and the Peak District for ten years now first as Sites and Monuments Officer employed jointly by Derbyshire County Council and the Peak Park Joint Planning Board and latterly full-time as Archaeologist for the Board. One of my annual pleasures is to count in how many of the reports published in the Derby- shire Archaeological Journal my name appears in the acknowledgements. This is not as some might think solely an exercise in feeding my ego (though I have to admit to an element of that). The purpose of the exercise is to gauge via published material the extent to which projects I have been involved in have reached fruition by being published. My involvement has not usually been in the direct man- agement of any particular project but in its initia tion or assisting with funding or giving encour agement advice or comment as a project has devel- oped. Management of the cultural heritage often means that no change in the status quo’ is deemed to be the ultimate success in conservation terms. It is therefore extremely gratifying to see the results of other aspects of my work reach the public domain. In chronological order of my involvement the excavation of the Hognaston barrow (Chapter 3) came first. It represents the positive partnership between Derbyshire County Council and the then Severn Trent Water Authority with Sheffield Uni versity doing the work. The positive use of the planning process and the awareness and acceptance of the two authorities of their responsibilities towards the management of the landscape resulted in this rescue excavation. (MP)