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Kitty Foster

21.09.2018

Renewables: Offshore Windfarms

Wessex Archaeology is the trusted market-leading provider of archaeological services to the offshore renewables sector. Since 2002 we have delivered the archaeological component of over 70% of all marine development projects in UK waters.

Kitty Foster

21.06.2018

Stonehenge and Avebury

The megalithic henges of Stonehenge and Avebury are among the most iconic prehistoric monuments in the world. In 1986 UNESCO designated this landscapes as a World Heritage Site (WHS) on account of their Outstanding Universal Value.

Karen Nichols

21.06.2003

The Amesbury Archer

The Amesbury Archer grave is of a man dating to around 2,300BC and was discovered three miles from Stonehenge by Wessex Archaeology staff in 2002. His grave was the richest ever found dating from the early Bronze Age found in Britain. He was found during excavation in advance of a housing development at Amesbury in Wiltshire, and the man was dubbed the “Amesbury Archer” or the “King of Stonehenge” by the media. He has featured on several radio and TV programmes, including the BBC2 Ancestors series.

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Coastal & Intertidal Fieldwork

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.
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Community & Education

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.
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Deposit Modelling

Wessex Archaeology is a market leader in geoarchaeological deposit modelling, and has successfully applied deposit modelling to both small and large scale sites.
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Display & Exhibition

Wessex Archaeology can create all you need for exhibitions and displays, for use in an inside or on-site context.
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Diving Investigation

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.
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Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and Cultural Heritage Chapters

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.
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Excavation & Mitigation

Excavation is usually required by planning authorities when a development is proposed on an area with significant archaeological remains.
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Heritage Consultants

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.
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Historic Environment Desk-Based Assessment

Wessex Archaeology produces high-quality desk-based assessments (DBA) which are often submitted in conjunction with planning applications to identify any likely heritage constraints.
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Marine & Maritime Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Services

Our dedicated specialists study the archaeological and documentary evidence that tells the story of our seafaring past.
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Marine Geoarchaeological Assessment

Submerged terrestrial landscapes can be buried deep beneath the current sea bed, and date from a time when sea-levels were significantly lower than present day.
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Marine Geophysical Services

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.
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Post-consent Marine Archaeology: Retained Archaeologist

Wessex Archaeology’s Coastal & Marine Team help our clients reduce risks and delays in marine development projects, by providing Retained Archaeologists for Post-consent Marine Archaeology.
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Protocols for Archaeological Discoveries (PAD)

If your offshore project requires a Protocol for Archaeological Discoveries (PAD), Wessex Archaeology have an experienced team ready to assist.
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Reconstruction & Visualisation

Wessex Archaeology has a team of professional artists who can supply a wide range of reconstruction materials. These include: more traditional hand drawings and watercolours, digital paintings, animations or full 3D reconstructions and 3D prints.
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Specialist Services

Wessex Archaeology’s Specialist Services Team offers you immediate access to leading archaeological experts.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

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.
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Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Gaming

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Watching Brief

Watching briefs are an ongoing process designed to ensure archaeological remains are identified, investigated and recorded before and during development.
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Written Scheme of Investigation

Wessex Archaeology’s consultancy team are highly experienced professionals working across the heritage sector producing Written Schemes of Investigation (WSI) for all types of work.
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10.10.23

Rare 18th-century Cold Bath uncovered at Bath Assembly Rooms

Our archaeologists, working in the basement below the National Trust's 18th-century Bath Assembly Rooms, have revealed the remains of a rare Cold Bath.

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09.10.23

The hunt for the Kingswood elephant: archaeologists conduct survey to find the legendary menagerie beast

Operation Nightingale archaeologists dig at Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Avon Camp, grave cuts and a ring ditch

20.09.23

Operation Nightingale and the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Avon Camp

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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.

Philippa Powell, Project Developer, Environment and Consents, Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm, E.ON Climate & Renewables

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.

Bronagh Byrne Orsted Environment and Consents Manager

A positive, can do attitude and flexible approach to rapid programme and scope changes.

Andrew Holmes Atkins, Principal Archaeological Consultant

Over the course of a decade, investigations by Wessex Archaeology have provided a new perspective on the submerged historic environment of the Thames.

Rachael Haylock-Jones, DP World London Gateway, Environment Manager

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.

Susie Barson, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society

SAMPHIRE’s methodology has a great degree of transferability and is an excellent model for similar sites throughout Europe.

The Europa Nostra Jury on awarding the prize to project SAMPHIRE

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.

Timothy Darvill, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society

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.

Steve Reed, Senior Historic Environment Officer, Devon County Council Historic Environment Team

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