We are proud to be working with the Staffordshire Alliance on Network Rail’s £250 million Stafford Area Improvements Programme. The programme will provide improved capacity and performance on the Stafford section of the West Coast main line through the delivery of three key projects – linespeed...
A team of heritage professionals from Headland Archaeology Midlands & West has been working at a new housing development being built by Bloor Homes at Home Farm, Fairford in Gloucestershire. We have uncovered evidence for human occupation dating back over 2,000 years. The first phase...
Headland Archaeology (South & East office) is proud to be working on the continued re-development of the University of Bedfordshire in Luton. The site on Park Street covers part of the campus where a teaching block used to be until it was recently demolished to make...
Over the last few months, Headland Archaeology has been involved in several phases of archaeological investigations on land near Stewartby, Bedfordshire. The work has been commissioned by O&H Properties Ltd who are developing the area in preparation for the construction of residential and commercial property as...
Our South & East office have begun investigations of a portion of Fulk de Breaute's early medieval Castle in Luton. The work commenced in December 2013 where we are working alongside the demolition contractors (DSM Demolition Ltd) in order to reveal archaeological remains as the site is stripped...
Archaeological works in Aberdeen are in full swing Over the last few weeks a team from Headland Archaeology have been working along the proposed route of the much anticipated new crossing over the River Don in Aberdeen and a nearby Park and Ride on the A96. The...
Kirsty Dingwall of Headland Archaeology presents a talk on recent analysis of a site in Perthshire During upgrading works to the A9 Loaninghead Junction, a variety of archaeological remains was unexpectedly encountered in the vicinity of Peterhead Enclosure: a cropmark site of probable Iron Age date....
Andy Boucher of Headland Archaeology presents an illustrated lecture on the recent excavations in Cathedral Close. The Cathedral Close project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and commissioned through the Cathedral. It was undertaken between September 2009 and May 2011 has provided one of the...
Following on from the discovery of a possible medieval knight’s grave during works for the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, eight further individuals have been discovered in close proximity. The burials, which include one adult female and one child skeleton, lie within an old wall...
A team of archaeologists from Headland Archaeology have discovered eight cremation burials and two short cists during recent excavations in Fortrose. The 3.6ha plot along Ness Road is to be the site of a new housing development by Tulloch Homes, who are funding the archaeological...