As we assist developers in meeting all their burial archaeology planning requirements, we work closely with our colleagues in Heritage Management Services, Fieldwork and Post-excavation, to provide our services at all stages of any project. Projects can be a housing development, quarry extension, road scheme, church refurbishment, or other type of development and may involve anything from advising on legislation and best practice, providing strategic advice, and undertaking desk-based research to inform planning applications, to evaluating and excavating burials, analysing and recording human remains and disseminating the findings.
We also undertake research projects with universities and other research institutions, national bodies such as Historic England, local interest groups and private individuals. Examples include analysis of a rare assemblage of prehistoric human remains from Charterhouse Warren Farm, Somerset with the University of Oxford (read more about the research here) and research on trench arch drains in churchyards for Historic England (the full report is available here). We also assist governments in humanitarian missions, to recover and identify missing in action soldiers from the First and Second World Wars, the largest of these being that which was undertaken in Fromelles, Northern France for the Australian Army and UK Ministry of Defence. The full "Remember Me to All" publication is available from our Knowledge Hub here.