Headland Archaeology Explained

Headland Group Ltd
Founded:1996, UK
Hq Location City:Edinburgh
Hq Location Country:UK
Areas Served:-->
Key People:Russel Coleman (Managing Director)
Num Employees: 150

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 Irish company was renamed as Rubicon Heritage Services.[6]

The Headland Group was acquired by the RSK Group[7] in March 2019[8] [9] but continues to trade as Headland Archaeology (UK) Limited.

Registered archaeological organisation

By 2001, Headland Archaeology Ltd had become a Registered Archaeological Organisation[10] 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. The changing Irish operations of Headland Archaeology never fell within this scheme.

Projects

The following are a selection of projects that the Headland Archaeology companies have been involved with. Note that some of these projects were delivered by Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd which has now left the group.

Major projects

UK

Ireland

Archaeological excavations

Environmental archaeology

Heritage management

Historic buildings

Industrial archaeology

Maritime archaeology

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk . wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk . 15 October 2012.
  2. Web site: http://www.cro.ie . www.cro.ie . 15 October 2012.
  3. http://www.herefordshirepartnership.com/documents/Bulletin_-_May_10.pdf Accessed 20 September 2012
  4. http://www.headlandarchaeology.com/news.html Accessed 20 September 2012
  5. Web site: Failure Page . wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk . 20 September 2012.
  6. Web site: http://www.archaeojobs.com/2011/12/headland-ireland-goes-independent-and.html . www.archaeojobs.com . 20 September 2012.
  7. Web site: Home . rsk.co.uk.
  8. Web site: Ahead of the game: Headland Archaeology joins forces with RSK Group . 2019-05-06 . 2019-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190506134500/https://www.rsk.co.uk/item/1270-ahead-of-the-game-headland-archaeology-joins-forces-with-rsk-group.html . dead .
  9. Web site: Global giant swoops on capital archaeologist - The Scotsman. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190506134956/https://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/global-giant-swoops-on-capital-archaeologist-1-4889724. 2019-05-06.
  10. Institute for Field Archaeologists 2001 Yearbook and Directory. Cathedral Communications Ltd
  11. Drew, D, 2011 'The Glasgow I used to know', Henry Ling: Dorset
  12. Holyrood Archaeology Project Team (2008) Scotland's Parliament Site and the Canongate archaeology and history. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
  13. Carter, S. and F. Hunter (2003), Antiquity 77, pp. 531-535.
  14. Web site: Glasgow, Finnieston, 138 Elliot Street . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  15. Lowe, Chris 2008 Inchmarnock. An Early Historic Island and its archaeological landscape, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
  16. Web site: Whithorn, Bruce Street, Whithorn Priory . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  17. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728165313/http://www.wac6.org/livesite/posters/poster_files/WAC_119_Dunne_Moloney.pdf Finding Hidden People - the Archaeology of a Current Road Project: N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford Scheme
  18. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728165336/http://www.wac6.org/livesite/posters/poster_files/WAC_164_Troy_Tourunen_Stewart.pdf 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
  19. 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
  20. Ginnever. Matthew. An Iron Age settlement and souterrain at Dubton Farm East, Brechin, Angus. Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal. 2017. 23. 1–12.
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. Dalland, M. (2004) '144-166 Cowgate.' Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 52.
  24. Moloney, C. (1999) 'Doune Primary School, Doune (Kilmadock Parish), Roman Fort, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland p. 87
  25. Web site: Doune, Roman Fort And Annexe . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  26. 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
  27. Web site: Dunbar, Castle Park . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  28. Boucher A, Craddock-Bennett L, & Daly T. 2015 Death in the Close: A medieval Mystery Edinburgh: Headland Archaeology
  29. Baker, L (2000) 'Gasswater Opencast Coal Scheme, Cronberry', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 23
  30. Web site: Edinburgh, Leith, Giles Street . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  31. Web site: Drumdevan . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  32. Web site: South Walls, Hackness, The Battery . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  33. 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.
  34. Web site: Shanzie . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  35. Web site: Irvine, Perceton House, Walled Garden . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  36. Alistair . Robertson . Julie . Lochrie . Scott . Timpany . 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. 10.9750/PSAS.143.73.136 . free .
  37. 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
  38. Web site: Pollen Analysis . Isle of Bute Master Chronology . 21 December 2022.
  39. Web site: Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations of a multi-period wetland site at Newrath, Co. Kilkenny . Web Archive . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728165402/http://www.wac6.org/livesite/posters/poster_files/WAC_120_Timpany_Wilkinson.pdf . 21 December 2022. 28 July 2011 .
  40. Web site: pH analysis of Burnt Mounds: KILCULLEN TO CARLOW Implications for preservation of organic material . Web Archive . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728165436/http://www.wac6.org/livesite/posters/poster_files/WAC_071_Stewart_Tourunen.pdf . 21 December 2022. 28 July 2011 .
  41. 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
  42. Kimber, M 2012 A Tale of Two Priories in Ewyas. Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd. Edinburgh
  43. Holden T 2004 The Blackhouses of Arnol. Historic Scotland Research Report. Edinburgh
  44. Web site: Lewis, Arnol, No. 39 . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  45. Holden, T & Brown, I 2008 ‘A Wartime Legacy: Dirleton Radar Station’. Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society. XXVII, 117-130
  46. Web site: Dirleton, Ground Control Intercept Radar Station . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  47. Holden, T 2003 'Brotchie's Steading (Dunnet parish), iron age and medieval settlement; post-medieval farm', Discovery Excav Scot, 4, 2003, 85-6.
  48. Web site: Dunnet, Kirkstyle, Brotchie's Steading . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  49. Robertson, A 2012 The rediscovery of ‘Carss Castell’: A medieval hall-house within, Kerse House, Grangemouth. Vernacular Building 36, pp. 41-60
  50. Web site: Barra, Kiessimul Castle . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  51. Holden, T G 2012 Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin: Changing techniques in thatching. Vernacular Building 35, 39-47.
  52. Web site: Innerwick, Temple Mains Farm . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  53. Web site: Galashiels, Huddersfield Street, Abbotsford Mill . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  54. Web site: Edinburgh, Granton, 87 Granton Park Avenue, Madelvic Car Factory, Production Block | Canmore.
  55. Web site: Madelvic car factory . Granton History . 21 December 2022.
  56. 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.
  57. Web site: The Picric Acid Expense Store to the West of the Northern Magazine Section, Rotherwas Industrial Park . British Listed Buildings . 21 December 2022.
  58. Web site: Edinburgh, Leith Walk, Shrub Place Lane, Shrubhill Tramway Workshops And Power Station . CANMORE . 21 December 2022.
  59. Bain, K (2008b) 'Shrub Hill Transport Depot, City of Edinburgh (Edinburgh parish), evaluation', Discovery Excav Scot, New, vol.9
  60. Atkinson, D 2012 Laser Scan Survey and Historic Vessels, The IFA Yearbook Vol 12, pp. 18
  61. Web site: The City of Adelaide Laser Scanning . Headland Architecture . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005020348/http://www.headlandarchaeology.com/Services/consultancy/maritime_case_studies/city_of_adelaide.html . 21 December 2022. 5 October 2013 .
  62. Coleman, R (2000), 'Union Canal, Leamington Wharf', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 57.

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