Archaeological Survey of Land on Bretton Moor, Derbyshire

In January 2000, ARCUS were commissioned by James Associates to carry out a survey at Bretton, Moor, Foolow, Derbyshire. The survey was required as a condition of planning permission which has been granted to allow the re-opening of a small nineteenth-century surface quarry for the extraction of stone for paving, walling stone and roof slates. The measured survey was carried out using an EDM (total station). Results were plotted using Intsurveyor software, at a scale of 1:400. The resulting plot was re-drawn by hand, to produce a detailed interpretative hachure plot. The survey was located on the edge of a much larger area of nineteenth-century surface quarrying, visible as hollows and waste heaps, now under pasture. The survey identified areas of stone extraction, spoil tipping and trackways, and also identified ephemeral traces of ditches and boundaries in the field to the north which will contain the waste heaps from the future extraction.