Headland Archaeology
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| Established | 1996 |
| Trading names | Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd |
| Managing Director | Tim Holden |
| Location | Edinburgh, Leighton Buzzard, Glasgow, Hereford |
| Employees | c. 70 |
| Web | Homepage |
Headland Archaeology comprises a holding company Headland Group Ltd[1] and the trading subsidiary Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd which incorporates Archaeological Investigations Ltd.. Established in 1996, they are independent commercial companies providing archaeological services and heritage advice to the construction industry and specialising in larger infrastructure projects.
Headland Archaeology is a Registered Archaeological Organisation[2] with the Institute for Archaeologists.
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[edit] Major Projects
- Scotland
M74 Completion, Glasgow, 19th century urban and industrial sites Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh[3]
The Newbridge chariot [4]
Verreville Glass and Pottery Works, Glasgow
The Inchmarnock Project, monastic settlement, Argyll and Bute [5][6]
The Whithorn Project, Medieval Priory
- Ireland
N25 Waterford Bypass
N7 Nenagh to Limerick High Quality Dual Carriageway
[edit] Archaeological Excavations
- Balblair Cist, Beauly, nr Inverness, Bronze Age burial cairn [7]
- Burgh by Sands, Aballava, Hadrian Wall Roman fort
- Carrowkeel, N6 road scheme, Ireland. Early Christian and Medieval settlement and cemetery [8]
- Cowgate, Edinburgh. Medieval town wall [9]
- Doune, Roman fort [10]
- Dunbar, Captain's Cabin, multi-phase settlement [11]
- Gasswater, East Ayrshire, medieval turf building [12]
- Giles Street, Leith, Edinburgh. Medieval remains
- Holm, Inverness, Bronze Age cists
- Grassmarket, Edinburgh [13]
- Hackness battery, Longhope, Orkney
- Penrith, Cumbria, Roman road
- Shanzie Souterrain, Alyth, Perthshire. Iron Age underground structure [14]
- Straiton Quarry, Newport-on-Tay, Fife. Bronze Age cremation burials
- Perceton, North Ayrshire, Medieval Manor
- Upper Forth Crossing, Kincardine, Clackmannan. Prehistoric and Medieval remains
- Wordsworth House, Cumbria
[edit] Environmental Projects
- Newrath, Co. Kilkenny, multi period wetland site
- N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, pH analysis of burnt mounts
- Ötzi, The Tyrolean Ice man, analysis of his last meal [15]
[edit] Heritage Management Projects
[edit] Historic Buildings Surveys
- The Arnol Blackhouses, Isle of Lewis [16]
- The Dirleton Radar Station, East Lothian [17]
- Dunnet, Brotchie's Steading, Caithness [18]
- Gasworks, Kilkenny, Ireland. Retort house
- Kisimul Castle, Isle of Barra
- Prestonpans, Scottish Gothic/Baronial House
- Temple Mains Farm, Inverwick, East Lothian, 18th century vernacular buildings
- Waverley Mill
[edit] Maritime Archaeology
[edit] References
- ^ Companies House
- ^ Institute for Archaeologists 2008 Yearbook and Directory. Cathedral Communications Ltd
- ^ Holyrood Archaeology Project Team (2008)Scotland's Parliament Site and the Canongate archaeology and history. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
- ^ Carter, S. and F. Hunter (2003), Antiquity 77, pp. 531-535.
- ^ Lowe, Chris 2008 Inchmarnock. An Early Historic Island and its archaeological landscape, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
- ^ [1]
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Dalland, M. (2004) '144-166 Cowgate.' Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 52.
- ^ Moloney, C. (1999) 'Doune Primary School, Doune (Kilmadock Parish), Roman Fort, Discovery and Excavation in Scotland p. 87
- ^ 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
- ^ Baker, L (2000) 'Gasswater Opencast Coal Scheme, Cronberry', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 23
- ^ [2]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ Holden T 2004 The Blackhouses of Arnol. Historic Scotland Research Report. Edinburgh
- ^ Holden, T & Brown, I 2008 ‘A Wartime Legacy: Dirleton Radar Station’. Transactions of the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society. XXVII, 117-130
- ^ Holden, T 2003 'Brotchie's Steading (Dunnet parish), iron age and medieval settlement; post-medieval farm', Discovery Excav Scot, 4, 2003, 85-6.
- ^ Coleman, R (2000), 'Union Canal, Leamington Wharf', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, p. 57.
