Post-excavation Analysis & Reporting

Our research team coordinates all post-excavation analysis and reporting. This start-to-finish service covers all aspects of field investigation from project designs to manuscripts for publication.

We offer reporting designed to provide clear and appropriate information to help you achieve successful sign-off of planning conditions. When further analysis and publication are required, our team provide a proportionate, pragmatic and realistic solution which brings together the interests of all key stakeholders.

Our assessment reports are guided by the principles of Historic England’s Management of Projects in the Historic Environment and Management of Archaeological Projects (commonly known as MoRPHE and MAPII) guidelines.

Major developments

We have a track record of analysing and synthesising large-scale and complex data sets from major construction developments and infrastructure projects. In addition, we can provide expertise which cover all periods and spheres of heritage from the Palaeolithic to the Industrial Age.

As well as our in-house publication series, we produce peer-reviewed reports for publication in a wide range of specialist, regional and national journals.

Related Case Studies

01.03.2018

MOD Durrington

On the site of the former MOD Headquarters in Durrington, a programme of archaeological excavation and watching brief (2000−2012) was undertaken by Wessex Archaeology ahead of the site being redeveloped into residential housing by Persimmon Homes South Coast. This revealed archaeological evidence spanning thousands of years and as far back as the last Ice Age.

28.04.2008

Cliffs End Farm

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Millwood Designer Homes to excavate land at Cliffs End Farm, Ramsgate prior to housing development. The extraordinary finds made during the 2004-5 excavations have allowed archaeologists to rethink the movement of people between this part of Kent and Continental Europe during the Bronze Age and Iron Age.

17.10.2008

Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire: an Early Saxon cemetery with bed burial

Wessex Archaeology undertook mitigation work and published the result of its excavations at Collingbourne Ducis one of the largest Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in Wiltshire. Dating to between the 5th and 7th centuries AD, it was investigated in 1974 and, in 2007. In all over 120 burials were found.

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.