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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]Headland Archaeology's in-house geophysics team undertook a magnetometer survey of a 235ha site immediately east of Lutterworth, Leicestershire.  The site put Headland's bespoke multi-sensor system to the test and demonstrated its adaptability, allowing the team to survey...

18 November, 2020

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]Carrying on from previous geophysical work, archaeological evaluations uncovered extensive prehistoric remains including potential barrows, an Iron Age enclosure and an infant burial with a nearly complete Beaker dating to approximately 2500-1700 BC.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][vc_column_text] Project Summary In 2018-19 Headland...

07 October, 2020

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]Adverse weather conditions and clay soils provided a challenge on this project. Headland staff were able to rise to the challenge, excavating and recording 25 Iron Age roundhouses in advance of construction of a modern-day housing development.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space...

02 October, 2019

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]This project was part of a suite of advance works along the western edge of the broader Swindon New Eastern Villages Scheme. Geophysics and trial trenching across the site revealed evidence of prehistoric and Roman activity, including...

25 September, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]Sites with extensive complex archaeological remains can appear daunting to a developer. Headland knows that ensuring the correct strategy is in place from the outset  is key to balancing research aims with the needs of a commercial development.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][vc_column_text] Project Summary A Heritage Lottery-funded programme...

03 July, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]Large-scale construction projects can have a long lifespan. Headland can take a project from inception through planning; produce guidance and other supporting documents to assist the contractors on site and undertake archaeological works to mitigate the effects of construction. On long running...

02 July, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]Conditions of consent for a development may require the design of a Programme of Archaeological Works. This needs to meet the requirement of the planning conditions but also needs to be practically achievable and fit with intended methodologies of the developer or...

02 July, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]Headland has in depth experience of providing archaeological input in advance of the construction of many of the largest road schemes in the UK in recent years and we are now transferring our skills in dealing with linear schemes to the rail...

29 June, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class="introtext"]The effect on the setting of heritage assets in the surrounding landscape is often a determining factor in whether a wind farm will be consented. However, despite some flexibility in design which allows turbines and other infrastructure to avoid known archaeological sites...

29 June, 2015