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Over the years we have worked on a diverse set of projects for a wide range of clients. Find out more about some of the exciting projects and discoveries. Use the filters to browse through the pages below.

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Roman-British Black Burnished Ware vessels from Wessex Court

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Commercial & Industrial

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Commercial & Industrial

23.01.2020

Excavations at Wessex Court, Dorchester

The results of two relatively small scale, yet highly productive excavations on a site in central Dorchester in 1989 and 1990, are now available.

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Enamelled silver disc brooch from Romano-British enclosure ditch at Poundbury Farm

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Residential

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Residential

16.01.2020

Prehistoric activity and a Romano-British settlement at Poundbury Farm

Between 2006 and 2013, the Duchy of Cornwall commissioned Wessex Archaeology to undertake various archaeological investigations in advance of development at Poundbury Farm, Dorchester.

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Heritage Interpretation from Wessex Archaeology 3D Reconstruction

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Public Archaeology

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Public Archaeology

01.01.2020

Heritage Interpretation

Wessex Archaeology has a Studio team who are specialists in providing a wide range of Heritage Interpretation. Our interpretations are designed to engage visitors with archaeology and heritage.

01.01.2020

In the press 2020

Wessex Archaeology stories reported through the press during 2020

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Public Archaeology

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Public Archaeology

03.12.2019

Buried secrets of the Bible, Jordan

In October 2018, a team from Wessex Archaeology travelled to Amman, Jordan. Our project was to provide 3D mapping and interpretation for production company, Caravan Media, as they filmed a new television series called ‘Buried secrets of the Bible’ for National Geographic.

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Aerial view of the hauling slips at Noss on Dart

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Commercial & Industrial

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Commercial & Industrial

03.12.2019

Noss on Dart D-Day remains in 3D

In the 75th D-Day anniversary year, Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by CBRE Ltd, on behalf of Premier Marinas Ltd to carry out a programme of archaeological recording of a former D-Day landing craft maintenance facility at Noss on Dart, Devon.

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Historic Environment Desk-Based Assessment
Historic Building Recording
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
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19.11.2019

A Prehistoric Burial Mound and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire

English Heritage and Operation Nightingale excavations 2003−2014

Environmental archaeologist studying samples through a microscope

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Residential

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Residential

21.10.2019

Gideon Road, Wandsworth

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake a palaeoenvironmental assessment of borehole BH8, comprising a thin c. 0.2m thick peat preserved below Holocene alluvium and sealed by made ground, on land at Gideon Road, Wandsworth, Greater London.

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Environmental Archaeology

Reconstruction of Yatton: A trackway to the past

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Residential

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Residential

23.09.2019

Yatton: A trackway to the past

Wessex Archaeology's excavation work at Yatton, ahead of construction work for a Primary School and housing development, has discovered a trackway, which was in use during the Iron Age and Romano-British periods, with settlement enclosures lining the route.

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The Festival of Archaeology with Phil Harding and Lorraine Mepham

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Public Archaeology

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Public Archaeology

20.09.2019

The Festival of Archaeology

‘Phil Hardings Dig’, the excavation at the museum in 2019, marked the fourth consecutive year that Wessex Archaeology has delivered this activity in partnership with Salisbury Museum as part of The Festival of Archaeology. Watch the video to see how this years dig went.

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The lost Hospital of St Katherine, Bristol

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Residential

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Residential

18.09.2019

St Katherine, Bristol: The lost hospital

Wessex Archaeology has carried out a trial trench evaluation, followed by a small excavation ahead of the redevelopment of the site by City and County Bedminster Ltd, which has uncovered the remains of St Katherine's medieval hospital.

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Multibeam echo-sounder image of the Dunwich Bank wreck site

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National Agencies

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National Agencies

22.08.2019

De-risking the Dunwich Bank wreck

Wessex Archaeology have been commissioned by Historic England to undertake survey and excavation of the mysterious wreck located off the coast of Dunwich, Suffolk. It is one of a handful of shipwrecks protected under law as nationally important archaeological sites.

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