Non-Invasive & Specialist
Our King’s Award winning non-invasive services are not only market leaders, but repeatedly singled out by our clients to save them significant cost, time and carbon output. Our LPS (Landscape Prospection Services) are particularly well regarded for the vast efficiencies they are able to provide on large greenfield sites.
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Boreholing
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Coring
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Geoarchaeological mapping
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Geochemical survey
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Geophysical survey
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Landscape Prospection Service - our market leading service - combining geoarchaeological mapping, high resolution UAV, geochemical, magnetic susceptibility & geophysical survey techniques)
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Landscape survey
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Magnetic susceptibility survey
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Osteoarchaeological analysis
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Paleoenvironmental services (microfossil, pollen, wood, charcoal - analysis)
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Portable OSL (optically stimulated luminescence)
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Remote sensing (UAV survey including high resolution LiDAR, multi-spectral and thermal imaging)
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UAV photography and photogrammetry
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Written Scheme of Investigation
PROJECTS
HS2
Our groundbreaking archaeological work along the HS2 central section contributed to our King’s Award in 2023. The non-invasive services techniques we employed included high resolution UAV and multispectral surveying together with an enhanced geophysical survey. This produced rapidly high quality cost efficient results, with zero carbon footprint.
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The work focused on five sites totalling 5.8ha across Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, revealing a deserted medieval village with chapel and burial ground together with evidence of prehistoric and Roman antiquity.​
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The post-excavation report was singled out as the best post-excavation assessment report produced on the entire central section of HS2 we were also commended for maintaining the highest health and safety standards.
Lochinver Quarry
To investigate this site, we primarily employed non-invasive high resolution multispectral surveying to see below ground coupled with surface geochemical, geophysical and magnetic susceptibility.
The work revealed one of Scotland’s most significant Bronze Age to Iron Age settlements. This included the largest complex of Iron Age, iron smelting hearths of Iron Age date ever found in the country.
Cheviot Quarry
Tarmac commissioned a series of archaeological investigations at Cheviot Quarry in Northumberland. Spectacular discoveries were uncovered further to implementation of our award winning non-invasive innovative techniques. This included three phases of settlement dating from the Neolithic, the Late Bronze Age and Dark Age periods.
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At the Maelmin Heritage Trail you can visit a full-size reconstruction of an Anglo-Saxon timber-built building that was excavated at Cheviot Quarry.
