Trial trenching behind the Exide Battery Works, off Salford Road, Bolton was carried out on the site of a proposed In-Vessel Composting Facility for the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The work evaluated the site of the former historic farmstead of Bank House and an area of historic coal mining associated with the former Bank House Colliery.

Wessex Archaeology's heritage team based in Sheffield investigated the former Lion Works, one of the few remaining metal trades works within Sheffield. Constructed in the mid-19th century, the Grade II listed, three-storey brick structure comprised a narrow linear range of workshops orientated end on to the street with a narrow yard with external steps leading to the upper floors. 

Wessex Archaeology was funded by Historic England (formerly English Heritage) through the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) to assess the importance of shipwrecks from the 19th and 20th centuries lying around the coast of England.