UK

Terrestrial & Maritime Archaeology

Our highly qualified team of archaeologists employ advanced techniques and industry-leading technology to survey, document, and study terrestrial and maritime archaeological sites. This comprehensive approach provides our clients with unparalleled insights into heritage assets, adding significant historical value to projects and promoting cultural tourism by showcasing the rich heritage associated with these sites.

Archaeological Monitoring (Watching Brief)

With extensive commercial experience our highly qualified staff provide comprehensive archaeological monitoring that ensures that development projects across industries, comply with heritage preservation standards, minimizing impact on cultural resources and ensuring responsible development with the aim of mitigating risk and keeping the project on track.

Archaeological Excavation

Drawing from extensive commercial experience, our expert staff offers thorough archaeological monitoring services. This ensures that development projects across various industries adhere to heritage preservation standards, minimizing impact on cultural resources. Our approach fosters responsible development, mitigating risks and maintaining project continuity seamlessly.

Preservation Planning

Chronicle Heritage provides strategic preservation planning to support, protect, and enhance heritage sites. Our approach seamlessly integrates the contemporary needs of our clients while promoting sustainable development.

Spatial Planning

By integrating heritage considerations with advanced GIS technology, spatial analysis, and urban design principles, Chronicle Heritage delivers sustainable and culturally sensitive spatial planning. This approach enhances the value of projects for clients in urban development, environmental management, and regional planning, while promoting community well-being.

Master Planning

We blend visionary urban planning with technical precision to provide forward-thinking solutions that seamlessly integrate heritage into the design and implementation of masterplan initiatives.

Heritage Appraisals

Chronicle Heritage provides meticulous assessments of cultural assets conducted by cultural heritage experts. Utilizing archival research, architectural surveys, and historical context analysis, we promote the protection and accurate valuation of cultural assets.

Heritage Impact Assessment

Heritage assets encompass a range of elements, including archaeological features both above and below ground, historically significant buildings, and intangible cultural practices like traditional hunting methods. Through heritage impact assessments (HIA), our team assists clients in sectors such as construction, urban planning, and environmental management. We empower informed decision-making to mitigate potential development impacts on these assets, promoting sustainable project outcomes.

With expert conservators that integrate non-invasive diagnostic techniques, conservation science, and traditional restoration methods to help protect and restore historical sites and artifacts, Chronicle Heritage ensure the historical integrity is valued and retained whilst promoting cultural continuity and appreciation.

With extensive expertise in World Heritage criteria, assessment of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV), and international conservation standards, we assist clients in navigating the rigorous process of nominating and maintaining their projects for UNESCO recognition.

Academia, museums, and natural history institutions benefit from our team of experienced paleontologists, who enrich understanding with their scientific expertise. They are dedicated to advancing public knowledge and driving scientific discovery forward.

Our GIS services harness advanced spatial data analysis, remote sensing, and geostatistical modeling to bolster archaeological and heritage projects. We provide accurate and insightful data that optimizes site management and enhances research outcomes, facilitating informed decision-making.

By constructing comprehensive heritage databases utilizing relational database management systems (RDBMS), metadata standards, and digital archiving protocols, Chronicle Heritage ensures clients receive well-organized repositories of both tangible and intangible heritage information. These resources support long-term preservation strategies effectively.

At Chronicle Heritage, we utilize virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and immersive 3D visualization to craft interactive and captivating heritage experiences. Clients in education, tourism, and cultural institutions gain deeper understanding and appreciation of historical sites and artifacts, enriching their projects with innovative heritage interpretation.

By employing non-invasive techniques such as satellite imagery processing, aerial photogrammetry, and ground-penetrating radar (GPR), we generate precise data. This enables us to effectively detect and analyze archaeological sites, significantly enhancing our ability to achieve project objectives.

Our 3D scanning and hosting services use LiDAR, structured light scanning, and photogrammetry to create detailed digital replicas of artifacts and sites that support research, education, and project planning, ensuring long-term preservation.

Chronicle Heritage employs geophysical survey techniques such as magnetometry, electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to document subsurface archaeological features. These methods provide valuable insights that inform project planning and enhance heritage management practices.

Through rigorous documentation techniques, we meticulously preserve and archive all project findings according to digital archiving standards and data management protocols. This approach supports sustainable heritage management and facilitates ongoing research efforts effectively.

Chronicle Heritage amplifies the visibility and impact of archaeological research within the discipline. We provide comprehensive publication support, ensuring that research findings are effectively communicated through high-quality reports, peer-reviewed articles, and academic journals.

Our tailored capacity building and training programs empower individuals and organizations with cutting-edge knowledge and skills in heritage management. Capacity building and training initiatives focusing on local content play a crucial role in enhancing a nation’s workforce capabilities and promoting economic diversification. 

Our experts understand the systematic process of EIAs and how they are used to evaluate the potential environmental consequences of a proposed project or development before it is approved or implemented. Our goal is to quickly identify, predict, and mitigate any significant negative environmental effects while enhancing positive impacts.

We provide comprehensive permitting and regulatory support for resource issues including streams, wetlands, baseline conditions assessments, special-status species, habitat assessment, and environmental site assessment.

We can conduct the biological surveys and assessments you need to ensure your project complies with all relevant regulations. We can provide impact analyses, biological assessments, avoidance/minimization plans and measures, and mitigation solutions to help keep your project on schedule.

We will lead your waters and wetlands planning and the management of water resources on your project site and provide any mitigation or restoration services that may be required.

We provide professional consulting services to ecological restoration and mitigation banking projects. Our expertise is end-to-end, from initial concept and siting to long-term monitoring and management of completed projects, all in accordance with the applicable regulations and with the unique requirements of mitigation banking.

We can help guide your project through any environmental compliance challenge with ecological and nature-based solutions. We’ll assess the ecological function of your site and help develop an effective, nature-based approach to prevent, offset, or mitigate the potential impacts of your activities.