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Contracting
Archaeological conditions placed on a planning application generally fall into three basic categories:
Assessment
The assessment of the potential archaeological resource within a proposed development area. This can include survey work and fieldwalking (the structured recovery of artefacts from arable fields), and geophysical survey. The resulting report can be used to aid site selection, or to comply with a planning condition. The document can stand alone, or be included as part of a larger environmental assessment.
Field Evaluation
Small-scale intervention, usually involving the excavation of a number of trenches, usually comprising a 2% sample of the development site. In some cases, where evaluation cannot be justified, a watching brief (observation and basic recording by an archaeologist of groundworks undertaken during the development) may be required instead.
Excavation
If field evaluation reveals archaeological deposits of sufficient importance, additional larger-scale excavations may be required. In some cases the recorded archaeological resource may result in the implementation of an excavation without recourse to the evaluation stage.
Foundations is set up to undertake all the above works up to and including large scale excavations. All staff members are suitably qualified and are experienced in all aspects of site and project management. Foundations exists to deal with these planning constraints in a professional manner, resulting in as little disruption to the development as possible.
Last updated on 2nd May 2001
