Wessex Archaeology’s Coastal & Marine team are experienced and knowledgeable in examining submerged and foreshore heritage in still water environments, river banks and streams and canal or canalside structures.
Archaeology is an excellent way to engage your community with their heritage and landscape, creating a sense of place that leads to greater community cohesion. We work with developers, heritage organisations, property managers, local government and charitable organisations.
Wessex Archaeology is a market leader in geoarchaeological deposit modelling, and has successfully applied deposit modelling to both small and large scale sites.
Wessex Archaeology’s Coastal & Marine team is the leading UK diving contractor specialising in archaeological investigation, ensuring the best possible project outcomes are safely delivered on time and on budget.
Wessex Archaeology regularly contributes chapters to Environmental Impact Assessments and has a proven track record of producing robust, defensible documents for some of the largest construction projects in the UK.
Marine geophysics is a non-invasive, efficient remote-surveying technique to interpret submerged landscapes and marine cultural material such as wrecks and debris from ships and aircraft.
Our heritage consultants work across the UK helping clients meet planning conditions to deliver their developments. With an emphasis on innovative, practical and proportionate solutions.
Wessex Archaeology produces high-quality desk-based assessments (DBA) which are often submitted in conjunction with planning applications to identify any likely heritage constraints.
Photogrammetry creates accurate fully textured 3D models from photographs and can be used to capture a range of subjects from the smallest objects to entire landscapes.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys allow for the rapid collection of high-quality data at a range of scales and resolutions, setting it apart from other survey methods.
The wreck of the pre-Dreadnought battleship, the HMS Montagu, has been granted protected status by the government on the advice of Historic England – thanks to work carried out by Wessex Archaeology in 2018.
It has been a pleasure to work with Wessex Archaeology throughout my time on this project, you have been a great team of professionals throughout.
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SAMPHIRE’s methodology has a great degree of transferability and is an excellent model for similar sites throughout Europe.
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Over the course of a decade, investigations by Wessex Archaeology have provided a new perspective on the submerged historic environment of the Thames.
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By River, Fields and Factory is a hugely readable, compelling and enjoyable account of the change in land use and associated structures from the prehistoric period to present day.
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All the participants and collaborators in the T5 project must be congratulated on their bold, innovative and timely attempt to enrich archaeological methods, recording systems and reporting procedures.
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The County Historic Environment Team has been impressed with Wessex Archaeology’s professionalism, quality of fieldwork and public engagement, regular liaison with the Historic Environment Team and commitment to the project.
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Working with Wessex Archaeology, we can be confident that any artefacts are handled delicately and we’re delighted to see they’ve unearthed so many items spanning decades of history.
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A positive, can do attitude and flexible approach to rapid programme and scope changes.
