Headland Archaeology comprises a holding company Headland Group Ltd and the trading subsidiary Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd. These companies provide archaeological services and heritage advice to the construction industry.
Headland Archaeology Ltd was established in 1996. 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, in Co. 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, 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 expanded their UK operation. Archaeological Investigations Ltd was subsequently assimilated as a regional office of Headland Archaeology (UK) Limited by October of the same year, with the underlying company dissolved in September 2012. The company opened a SE office in 2011, initially in Leighton Buzzard later moving to Silsoe, Beds.
During December 2011 a management buyout of Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd with the Irish company renamed as Rubicon Heritage Services.
By 2001 Headland Archaeology Ltd had become a Registered Archaeological Organisation with the Institute for Archaeologists given the reference number RAO40. This registration has been continued since this time 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.
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.
UK
M74 Completion, Glasgow, 19th century urban and industrial sitesScottish Parliament, EdinburghThe Newbridge chariot, EdinburghVerreville Glass and Pottery Works, Glasgow [1]The Inchmarnock Project, monastic settlement, Argyll and Bute [2]The Whithorn Project, Medieval Priory [3]Ireland
Carlow Bypass N9/N10 [4][5]N25 Waterford BypassN7 Dual Carriageway Nenagh to LimerickBalblair Cist, Beauly, nr Inverness, Bronze Age burial cairnBewell Street, HerefordBurgh by Sands, Aballava, Hadrian Wall Roman fortCarrowkeel, N6 road scheme, Ireland. Early Christian and Medieval settlement and cemeteryCowgate, Edinburgh. Medieval town wallDoune, Stirling, Roman fort [6]Captain's Cabin, Dunbar, East Lothian, multi-phase settlement [7]Cathedral Close, Hereford Cathedral Gasswater, East Ayrshire, medieval turf buildingGiles Street, Leith, Edinburgh. Medieval remains [8]Holm, Inverness, Bronze Age cists [9]Grassmarket, Edinburgh [10]Hackness battery, Longhope, Orkney [11]Shanzie Souterrain, Alyth, Perthshire. Iron Age underground structure [12]Straiton Quarry, Newport-on-Tay, Fife. Bronze Age cremation burialsPark Square Campus, University of Bedfordshire, Luton [13][14] [15]Perceton, North Ayrshire, Medieval Manor [16]Upper Forth Crossing, Kincardine, Clackmannan. Prehistoric and Medieval remainsClonycavan Man, IrelandGeoarchaeological Regional Review of Marine Deposits along the Coastline of Southern EnglandIsle of Bute Master ChronologyNewrath, Co. Kilkenny, multi period wetland siteN9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme, pH analysis of burnt moundsOld Croghan Man, IrelandÖtzi, The Tyrolean Ice man, analysis of his last mealThe Irish Battlefields Project[17]Ewyas Harold Priory, HerefordshireThe Arnol Blackhouses, Isle of Lewis [18]The Dirleton Radar Station, East Lothian [19]Dunnet, Brotchie's farm steading, Caithness [20]Gasworks, Kilkenny, Ireland. Retort house [21]Kerse House, Grangemouth, country house of Sir Lawrence DundasKisimul Castle, Isle of Barra [22]Moirlanich Longhouse, Killin, thatching & vernacular building.ROF Rotherwas, Hereford [23] [24] [25]Temple Mains Farm, Innerwick, farm steading, East Lothian [26]Waverley Mill, Galashiels [27]Madelvic Works, Edinburgh [28]Mount Pleasant Pipeworks, Woodville[29],Rotherwas Ordnance Factory, Hereford [30] [31]Shrubhill Tram Depot, Einburgh City of Adelaide clipper - laser scan [32]Leamington Wharf, Union Canal, EdinburghA Zulu Herring Drifter at the Scottish Fisheries Museum - laser scan
