Archaeological works at the site known as India Buildings have revealed arguably the best medieval site ever excavated in the city of Edinburgh. The redevelopment of the existing India Buildings on Victoria St, Edinburgh into a new Virgin Hotel included the development of the land directly...
The archaeological excavations in advance of the construction of the National Highways A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme were one of the most complex archaeological projects undertaken in the UK to date. During the works over 280K artefacts were unearthed. Now you can read about fifty...
Last November, Headland Archaeology took centre stage at the J Murphy & Sons Supply Chain Awards, clinching the esteemed title of Energy Supply Chain Partner of the Year. Its win was a nod to its outstanding archaeological mitigation work on the Norfolk Vanguard Onshore Project...
Headland Archaeology has been developing their Technical Services team in the last few years and have developed a whole suite of services that are now at the field teams fingertips. Every member of the field team has access to their own company iPad where they...
Headland Archaeology, the UK’s leading privately owned provider of heritage services to the development and construction sectors and part of the RSK group, has been appointed onto Highways England’s £195 million archaeology framework. The four-year framework offers Headland the opportunity to work with the government-owned company...
2020 was an interesting year to say the least. We thought we’d take some time to look at the numbers and how our business has fared, especially with the spanner of COVID-19 thrown into the works. In 2020 Headland began 347 projects, which is more or...
You may have seen a few job advertisements from us recently looking for geoarchaeologists and other post-excavation roles. Headland have continued our expansion of our post-ex capabilities since our last blog and today we have two new additions to the Headland post-ex team to introduce. [caption...
Headland have added another monograph to our publication roster! ‘Worcester Magistrates Court: Excavation of Romano-British homes and industry at Castle Street’ details the results of archaeological excavations on the periphery of the Roman ‘small town’ at Worcester which revealed extensive evidence for timber-framed buildings, probably...
[caption id="attachment_48152" align="alignleft" width="266"] Learning and Development Coordinator Ian Henry[/caption] Headland’s Learning and Development Coordinator Ian Henry writes about the implementation and development of an effective learning culture and how we’ve been delivering training to our staff across all levels. Competency and skills are critical for business...
As you may have seen previously every year Headland produce a back page for the CIfA (Chartered Institute for Archaeologists) Yearbook. This year we wanted to get across the message of Headland as a reliable and trustworthy contractor that clients can be confident with to...