Trent Valley GeoArchaeology

Currently, the group includes officer representatives from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Staffordshire County Councils, representatives from Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Leicester and Loughborough Universities, representatives from English Heritage, the Environment Agency and the Quarry Products Association, and some individuals.

The Group’s objectives are to:

• Agree and promote research objectives in the floodplain of the Trent Valley and its tributaries.
• Seek resources to carry out and achieve agreed objectives.
• Support individual initiatives and ensuring feedback of their results to contribute to the overall objectives.
• Advise on the management of the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental resource in the floodplain of the Trent Valley and its tributaries.
• Establish a baseline of information for the whole area.
• Publicise the archaeology and palaeoenvironmental resource of the Trent Valley.

The Group has agreed a research agenda for the Trent Valley. This is the relationship between people and the river, and the reconstruction of past environments and the development of the landscape, through depositional processes and anthropogenic change, in addition to the traditional concerns about site types, settlement patterns, economy and chronology, in order to enable the sustainable use of the valley today.

Through its membership and its declared aims and objectives Trent Valley GeoArchaeology interdigitates with other wide area environmental management initiatives and programmes in the Trent Valley and its hinterlands.