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Annual Report 2019 ANNUAL 2019 REPORT THIS YEAR’S CONTRIBUTORS Text Alex Smith (Head of Post-excavation), Alistair Webb (Regional Manager), Andy Boucher (Director of Commercial Operations), Andy Towle (Consultancy Director), Edward Bailey (SHEQ & Contracting Manager), Owen Raybould (Principal Consultant), Julie Franklin (Finds & Archiving Manager), Michael Tierney (Regional Manager), Rachel McMullan (Marketing Coordinator), Russel Coleman (Managing Director) Design Julia Bastek-Michalska (Graphics Manager), Rafael Maya Torcelly (Illustrator), Eleanor Winter (Illustrator) ANNUAL REPORT 2019 CONTENTS 2 Our vision, our ethos 3 Letter from the Managing Director 5 Surveying the way forward 7 A history of archaeology at RSK 11 Monographs and a medieval jug 14 Meet some of our new staff 17 Safety, Health, Environmental & Quality 19 Business Structure 20 Sales Statistics 21 Business Development 23 Business Operations 27 Case Studies 41 Outlook ANNUAL REPORT 2019 OUR VISION OUR ETHOS Headland Archaeology was founded in 1996 by four Our success and respected industry reputation led to our like-minded archaeologists with a strong commitment recent acquisition by the RSK Group, an environmental to commercially-focused client delivery. In a business and engineering company which has a similar ethos that traditionally dominated by the not-for-profit sector, their people and clients are the core of their business. Headland Archaeology is one of the UK’s leading privately- As a part of this larger organisation we continue to lead owned providers of heritage services to the development from the front, encouraging innovation and excellence in and construction industries. We offer a wide range of all aspects of our work. archaeological services covering the life cycle of a project from design through to construction. Our pragmatic and Headland supports the development and construction professional approach has earned us multiple awards sectors throughout the UK from five offices – Edinburgh, and an industry-leading reputation for delivering on time Leeds, Manchester, Hereford and Luton. Our regional and within budget. This ethos is applied to all projects, network means that we can offer our clients essential local whether we are working on a fast-track road or rail project, knowledge, whilst our national coverage means we can a multi-phase housing development or quarry, or a wind also offer them a consistent product and customer service farm in a complex upland or lowland landscape setting. no matter where their development is in the UK. SCOTLAND YORKSHIRE & NORTH NORTH WEST SOUTH & EAST MIDLANDS & WEST ANNUAL REPORT 2019 “Even when we were a small company, we always had a vision of what we wanted to be, what we wanted to look like and where we wanted to get to.” Russel Coleman Managing Director Letter from the Managing Director As we go to print with our latest Annual Report, it is Throw in the review of HS2, two major storms which put hard to believe a full year has passed since we joined many of our sites underwater and now, COVID-19. It’s not the RSK Group. This report covers our last year before easy running a business at the best of times, but 2020 looks the acquisition as well and our first full year in RSK. like the ultimate test. For the management team at Headland, 2019 saw However, it was noticeable that once the election was out a number of changes in the way we do things, to fit in of the way in November, the floodgates opened and we with the way the Group does business; but for most of us have since been inundated with enquiries, many of which it’s been business as usual. We now see opportunities we have now been converted. It means that this current would not normally see, which has allowed us to widen the financial year, 2020/21, will be even busier than forecast services we can provide to our clients and we have learnt and our teams are working hard to plan ahead. As part of much from our new colleagues in other RSK businesses. We this process, we have recently restructured the company couldn’t ask for more. We really are a one stop shop now along slightly different lines and generally refreshed and we firmly believe we have a unique selling point within the business to take us forward for the next few years. our sector. Judging by the many positive testimonials we Balancing major infrastructure projects with sustainable get, our clients agree. core work has never been easy. The government's ‘build, build, build’ strategy is really helping us to cope with the Our last financial year, 2018/19, as the ‘original’ Headland was impact of COVID-19 on the rest of our business but is also its most successful, with turnover c £16m for 10 months of a real challenge in itself. When we first started the business, trading – we have since changed our financial year to align we always had a vision of what we wanted to be, what with RSK. We also waved goodbye to two of the original we wanted to look like and where we wanted to get to. founders of the business, Tim Holden and Chris Lowe, and That has never been clearer in our minds as it is now as we we wish them a long and happy retirement. enter a new decade and a new normal. Our first year in RSK, 2019/20, was a strange one. Brexit and the election created an early paralysis in the marketplace. Annual Report 2019 Surveying the way forward page | 5 Surveying the way forward Headland’s geophysics department has This flexibility has enabled us to successfully With the current boom in infrastructure been the cornerstone of the success of the complete surveys on a range of sites that projects showing no sign of abating in the Yorkshire & North office since it opened in would have been impossible for conventional near future we are eager to build on our March 2015. From the beginning our aim systems including fields containing mature successes of the last five years and moving has been to be innovators in the field of potatoes, fields of high value market garden to our new premises in early 2020 will be archaeological geophysics while offering crops and across uneven peat hag terrain key to future expansion. Other opportunities our clients a cost-effective service. (photo). Our system is particularly cost are opening up as we develop relationships effective on large infrastructure sites such as with our parent company, RSK, and all the From the beginning we made a conscious pipe, cable or road corridors or large urban other companies in the group and we are decision not to go down the route of expansion schemes allowing us to cover already seeing an increase in the number of developing a push, pulled or towed array. up to 12 hectares per day per team in an tender opportunities coming our way. These survey methods are only good to use 8-hour working day. Progress has been rapid under ideal conditions but quickly become and since 2015 we have surveyed just over In the meantime we continue to innovate difficult or impossible to use at certain 8,900 hectares, increasing our coverage year and to look for other ways that we can times in the agricultural cycle (high crop), on year. better serve our existing client base. The on uneven surfaces or when conditions holy grail of archaeological geophysics underfoot become sticky. Therefore, we To provide such a high level of activity we remains to develop a system that can have developed a more mobile system that now have three full time teams with the provide detailed data on any site at any allows us to operate on most sites most of ability to bring in a fourth team during time of year and in all weather conditions. the time and cover large areas on a daily basis exceptionally busy periods. This gives us Work is currently ongoing. even under poor ground conditions. Our the potential of covering up to 130 hectares system comprises a multi-sensor array, which per week and the possibility of completing combines the flexibility of a hand carried a 500-hectare site in under a month, totals system with the accuracy of geo-referencing, that would have been unthinkable even thereby eliminating the need to set out grids. five years ago. Written by Alistair Webb Annual Report 2019 A history of archaeology at RSK page | 7 A history of archaeology at RSK RSK was established in 1989 by Alan Ryder The sea-change came in 2005 with the so- company) were required to oversee the following submission of his PhD on the called Dash for Gas, and the construction work of 120 concurrent subcontracted environmental impact of oil pipelines. of the 317km South Wales Gas Pipeline to archaeological field staff. The overall The first few of the young company’s transport liquid natural gas imported by turnover for this project alone equalled contracts were, unsurprisingly, oil pipeline tanker into Milford Haven to the national English Heritage’s annual research budget assessments and at this time external gas network at Tirley in Gloucestershire. at that time. archaeological contractors were employed. RSK were responsible for all aspects of the It wasn’t until 2000 that RSK recruited its project Environmental Impact Assessment RSK have historically specialised in the first in-house full-time archaeologist. For (EIA), as well as construction contractor delivery of multi-disciplinary environmental the following five years RSK carried out support for the Felindre to Brecon section. assessments, which the Archaeology consultancy and managed subcontractors’ For this project, five full-time archaeological team contributed to, finding savings and archaeological fieldwork.
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