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| Founded | 1996, UK |
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| Headquarters | Edinburgh , UK |
Key people | Andy Norton (Managing Director) |
Number of employees | c. 200 |
| Website | www |
Headland Archaeology Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the RSK Group. Headland provides archaeological services and heritage advice to the construction industry.
Company history
[edit]Headland Archaeology Ltd was established in 1996.[1] Headquartered in Edinburgh, this company expanded as a provider of commercial archaeology services in the UK. Expansion into the Irish market led to the establishment of Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd in 2000,[2] in County Cork.
Restructuring of the companies in May and June 2008 involved the renaming of Headland Archaeology Ltd as Headland Group Limited. A new company, Headland Archaeology (UK) Limited,[1] was founded at this time to give, in conjunction with Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd, a coherent structure to the group based on trading areas.
The acquisition of Hereford-based Archaeological Investigations Ltd in 2010[3] expanded its UK operation. Archaeological Investigations Ltd was subsequently assimilated as a regional office of Headland Archaeology (UK) Limited by October 2010,[4] with the underlying company dissolved in September 2012.[5] The company opened a southeast office in 2011, initially in Leighton Buzzard later moving to Silsoe in Bedfordshire, and a northern office based in Beeston, Leeds in 2015. In December 2011, there was a management buyout of Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd.
The Headland Group was acquired by the RSK Group[6] in March 2019[7][8] but continues to trade as Headland Archaeology (UK) Limited.
Registered archaeological organisation
[edit]By 2001, Headland Archaeology Ltd had become a Registered Archaeological Organisation[9] with the Institute for Archaeologists (reference number RAO40). This registration has been continued and was transferred to Headland Archaeology (UK) Limited during the company re-organisation in 2008.
Projects
[edit]The following are a selection of Headland Archaeology projects.
Major projects
[edit]UK
- A14 Huntingdon to Cambridge Road Improvement Scheme[10]
- M74 northern extension to M8, 19th century urban and industrial sites[11]
The 'Hostage Stone', an inscribed slate from the 9th century monastic settlement on the Island of Inchmarnock - Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh[12]
- The Newbridge chariot, Edinburgh[13]
- Verreville Glass and Pottery Works, Glasgow[14]
- The Inchmarnock Project, monastic settlement, Argyll and Bute[15]
- Whithorn Priory, a Medieval priory[16]
Ireland
Archaeological excavations
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- Dubton Farm, Brechin, Angus. A wood-lined souterrain inside an Iron Age roundhouse.[20]
- Balblair Cist, Beauly, near Inverness, Bronze Age burial cairn[21]
- Bewell Street, Hereford
- Burgh by Sands, Aballava, Hadrian's Wall Roman fort
- Carrowkeel, N6 road scheme, Ireland. Early Christian and medieval settlement and cemetery[22]
- Cowgate, Edinburgh. Medieval town wall[23]
- Doune, Stirling, Roman fort[24][25]
- Captain's Cabin, Dunbar, East Lothian, multi-phase settlement[26][27]
- Cathedral Close, Hereford Cathedral[28]
- Gasswater, East Ayrshire, medieval turf building[29]
- Giles Street, Leith, Edinburgh. Medieval remains[30]
- Holm, Inverness, Bronze Age cists[31]
- Grassmarket, Edinburgh
- Hackness battery, Longhope, Orkney[32]
- Shanzie Souterrain, Alyth, Perthshire. Iron Age underground structure[33][34]
- Straiton Quarry, Newport-on-Tay, Fife. Bronze Age cremation burials
- Park Square Campus, University of Bedfordshire, Luton [1] [permanent dead link][2] [3]
- Perceton, North Ayrshire, Medieval Manor[35][36]
- Upper Forth Crossing, Kincardine, Clackmannan. Prehistoric and medieval remains
- Queensferry Crossing, Edinburgh and Fife. Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, and medieval remains [37]
Environmental archaeology
[edit]- Clonycavan Man, Ireland
- Geoarchaeological Regional Review of Marine Deposits along the Coastline of Southern England[38]
- Isle of Bute Master Chronology[39]
- Newrath, County Kilkenny, multi period wetland site[40]
- N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, pH analysis of burnt mounds[41]
- Old Croghan Man, Ireland
- Ötzi, The Tyrolean Ice man, analysis of his last meal[42]
Heritage management
[edit]- Irish Battlefields Project
- Ewyas Harold Priory, Herefordshire[43]
Historic buildings
[edit]- The Arnol Blackhouses, Isle of Lewis[44][45]
- The Dirleton Radar Station, East Lothian[46][47]
- Dunnet, Brotchie's farm steading, Caithness[48][49]
- Gasworks, Kilkenny, Ireland. Retort house
- Kerse House, Grangemouth,[50] country house of Sir Lawrence Dundas
- Kisimul Castle, Isle of Barra[51]
- Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin, thatching & vernacular building.[52]
- Temple Mains Farm, Innerwick, farm steading, East Lothian[53]
- Waverley Mill, Galashiels[54]
Industrial archaeology
[edit]- Madelvic works, Edinburgh[55][56]
- Mount Pleasant Pipeworks, Woodville, Derbyshire[57]
Mount Pleasant Works - Tunnel kiln - ROF Rotherwas, Hereford[58]
- Shrubhill Tram Depot, Edinburgh[59][60]
Maritime archaeology
[edit]- City of Adelaide clipper - laser scan[61][62]
- Leamington Wharf, Union Canal, Edinburgh[63]
- A Zulu Herring Drifter at the Scottish Fisheries Museum - laser scan[61]
References
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- ^ http://www.headlandarchaeology.com/news.html Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 20 September 2012
- ^ "Failure Page". wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ "Home". rsk.co.uk.
- ^ "Ahead of the game: Headland Archaeology joins forces with RSK Group". Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "Global giant swoops on capital archaeologist - The Scotsman". Archived from the original on 6 May 2019.
- ^ Institute for Field Archaeologists 2001 Yearbook and Directory. Cathedral Communications Ltd
- ^ West, E; Christie, C; Moretti, D; Scholma-Mason, O; Smith, A (2024). "A Route Well Travelled. The archaeology of the A14 Huntingdon to Cambridge Road Improvement Scheme". Internet Archaeology (67). doi:10.11141/ia.67.22.
- ^ Drew, D, 2011 'The Glasgow I used to know', Henry Ling: Dorset
- ^ Holyrood Archaeology Project Team (2008) Scotland's Parliament Site and the Canongate archaeology and history. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
- ^ Carter, S. and F. Hunter (2003), Antiquity 77, pp. 531-535.
- ^ "Glasgow, Finnieston, 138 Elliot Street". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Lowe, Chris 2008 Inchmarnock. An Early Historic Island and its archaeological landscape, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
- ^ "Whithorn, Bruce Street, Whithorn Priory". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Finding Hidden People - the Archaeology of a Current Road Project: N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme. Retrieved: 21 December 2022.
- ^ Paying Respects: The Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of an Early-Middle Bronze Age Cremation Cemetery from Ballybar Lower, Co. Carlow - N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme. Retrieved: 21 December 2022.
- ^ Eogan, J & Twohig, E (2011), Cois tSiuire - nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir Valley, NRA Scheme Monographes 8, National Roads Authority: Dublin
- ^ Ginnever, Matthew (2017). "An Iron Age settlement and souterrain at Dubton Farm East, Brechin, Angus" (PDF). Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal. 23: 1–12.
- ^ Dutton, A., Clapperton, K. and S. Carter (2007). ‘Rock art from a Bronze Age burial at Balblair, near Inverness.’ Proceedings of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries 137, pp. 117-136
- ^ B. Wilkins and S. Lalone (2009), 'An early medieval settlement/cemetery at Carrowkeel, Co. Calway.' The Journal of Irish Archaeology, vol. XVII, pp. 57-83.
- ^ Dalland, M. (2004) '144-166 Cowgate.' Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 52.
- ^ Moloney, C. (1999) 'Doune Primary School, Doune (Kilmadock Parish), Roman Fort, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland p. 87
- ^ "Doune, Roman Fort And Annexe". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Moloney, C. (2001) New evidence for the origins and evolution of Dunbar; excavations at the Captain's Cabin, Castle Park, Dunbar, East Lothian, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland 131, pp. 283-318
- ^ "Dunbar, Castle Park". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Boucher A, Craddock-Bennett L, & Daly T. 2015 Death in the Close: A medieval Mystery Edinburgh: Headland Archaeology
- ^ Baker, L (2000) 'Gasswater Opencast Coal Scheme, Cronberry', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 23
- ^ "Edinburgh, Leith, Giles Street". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "Drumdevan". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "South Walls, Hackness, The Battery". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Coleman, R and Hunter, F (2002) "The excavation of a souterrain at Shanzie Farm, Alyth, Perthshire" Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal vol 8 (2002), 77-101.
- ^ "Shanzie". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Stronach, Simon (2004). "The Evolution of a Medieval Scottish Manor at Perceton, Near Irvine, North Ayreshire" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 48: 143–166. doi:10.1179/007660904225022834. S2CID 161788913.
- ^ "Irvine, Perceton House, Walled Garden". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Robertson, Alistair; Lochrie, Julie; Timpany, Scott (2013). "Built to last: Mesolithic and Neolithic settlement at two sites beside the Forth estuary, Scotland". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 143: 73–136. doi:10.9750/PSAS.143.73.136.
- ^ Timpany, S, 2009 Geoarchaeological Regional Review of Marine Deposits along the coastline of Southern England. English Heritage, Research Department Report Series 4-2009 ISSN 1749-8775
- ^ "Pollen Analysis". Isle of Bute Master Chronology. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations of a multi-period wetland site at Newrath, Co. Kilkenny" (PDF). Web Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "pH analysis of Burnt Mounds: KILCULLEN TO CARLOW Implications for preservation of organic material" (PDF). Web Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Holden, T G 2002 The food remains from the colon of the Tyrolean Ice Man, in Dobney, K & O’Connor, T (eds.) Bones and the Man: Studies in honour of Don Brothwell. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 35-40
- ^ Kimber, M 2012 A Tale of Two Priories in Ewyas. Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd. Edinburgh
- ^ Holden T 2004 The Blackhouses of Arnol. Historic Scotland Research Report. Edinburgh
- ^ "Lewis, Arnol, No. 39". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Holden, T & Brown, I 2008 ‘A Wartime Legacy: Dirleton Radar Station’. Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society. XXVII, 117-130
- ^ "Dirleton, Ground Control Intercept Radar Station". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Holden, T 2003 'Brotchie's Steading (Dunnet parish), iron age and medieval settlement; post-medieval farm', Discovery Excav Scot, 4, 2003, 85-6.
- ^ "Dunnet, Kirkstyle, Brotchie's Steading". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Robertson, A 2012 The rediscovery of ‘Carss Castell’: A medieval hall-house within, Kerse House, Grangemouth. Vernacular Building 36, pp. 41-60
- ^ "Barra, Kiessimul Castle". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Holden, T G 2012 Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin: Changing techniques in thatching. Vernacular Building 35, 39-47.
- ^ "Innerwick, Temple Mains Farm". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "Galashiels, Huddersfield Street, Abbotsford Mill". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "Edinburgh, Granton, 87 Granton Park Avenue, Madelvic Car Factory, Production Block | Canmore".
- ^ "Madelvic car factory". Granton History. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Cradock-Bennett, L (2007) ‘John Knowles & Co. Mount Pleasant Works, Woodville Woodlands’, Hereford Archaeology Series - Archaeological Investigation and history of the works, ref 757, 969.
- ^ "The Picric Acid Expense Store to the West of the Northern Magazine Section, Rotherwas Industrial Park". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ "Edinburgh, Leith Walk, Shrub Place Lane, Shrubhill Tramway Workshops And Power Station". CANMORE. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Bain, K (2008b) 'Shrub Hill Transport Depot, City of Edinburgh (Edinburgh parish), evaluation', Discovery Excav Scot, New, vol.9
- ^ a b Atkinson, D 2012 Laser Scan Survey and Historic Vessels, The IFA Yearbook Vol 12, pp. 18
- ^ "The City of Adelaide Laser Scanning". Headland Architecture. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Coleman, R (2000), 'Union Canal, Leamington Wharf', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 57.
External links
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