Headland Archaeology

Headland Group Ltd

Founded	1996, UK
Headquarters	Edinburgh , UK
Key people	Andy Norton (Managing Director)
Number of employees	c. 200
Website	www.headlandarchaeology.com

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

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

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

The following are a selection of Headland Archaeology projects.

Major projects

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

• Carlow Bypass N9/N10 ^{[17] [18]}
• N25 Waterford Bypass ^[19]
• N7 Dual Carriageway Nenagh to Limerick

Archaeological excavations

Excavations in a road corridor, Ireland

Skateraw, East Lothian

• 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 ^[ permanent dead link ‍]
• 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

• 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]

Excavation of the thatched roof at Moirlanich Longhouse

Heritage management

• Irish Battlefields Project
• Ewyas Harold Priory, Herefordshire ^[43]

Historic buildings

• 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

• 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

• 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]

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External links

• http://www.headlandarchaeology.com