Survey Department
Landscape Investigation and Field Survey
Pre-Construct Archaeology's Survey team are able to offer a range of landscape investigation services. Typically, survey work may be required as part of planning or conservation requirements either to inform or as a recommendation of a conservation management plan; to inform or as a result of an archaeological desk-based assessment or environmental impact assessment; as part of a historic landscape assessment; to provide analysis and interpretation of historic sites and landscapes and in general, to provide a detailed record of sites, monuments, buildings, earthworks and landscapes.
- Landscape investigation of standing buildings, ruins and earthworks leads to a greater understanding of the past through the analysis of above-ground remains.
- To this can be added the topographical setting and historical context, through observation, survey, aerial photograph interpretation and historic map and documentary research.
- Landscape survey can be incorporated with historic buildings analysis and recording and can be supplemented by the commissioning of geophysical survey.
- Although these methods are non-intrusive, therefore fast, efficient and relatively cheap, they can then be used to target further investigation in the form of excavation or more detailed recording.
Landscape investigation can address specific queries or management problems:
- Investigation can locate documented and unknown features and can provide a landscape setting for existing ruins or buildings.
- Survey plans and interpretation plans derived from the data make excellent illustrations for brochures and guidebooks as well as information panels for visitors.
- Plans are essential in conservation management by providing location data, assessing condition and imparting new understanding. This can enhance applications for Heritage Lottery Fund and other grants.
- Survey results can aid in the reconstruction of former park and garden features.
- Problems of damage and erosion occur in estuarine and coastal environments as well as through agricultural practice, tourism and leisure. Sites can be recorded and then monitored for damage-limitation or mitigation.
- Measured survey inputs into wider research agendas.
We can provide data ranging from a walkover survey to in-depth analysis, recording and interpretation for planning, management or research purposes. We undertake detailed field survey of monuments, sites and landscapes of all shapes, sizes and periods from prehistoric to modern in urban contexts or rural areas.
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