WA C&M has completed over 160 projects since 1995. Our projects include development-led investigations, studies to support the legal protection of sites, and strategic research.

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Latest project news:

  • SS Mendi report online - The last post on the wreck of the ss Mendi described the recent assessment of geophysical data for the site carried out by Wessex Archaeology. We are please to announce that this project report is now available online. To download a copy please click here.
  • Podcast: Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea (part two) - The following podcast relates to the ALSF funded Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea: A Scoping Study project undertaken by Wessex Archaeology in late 2007. The project is looking at what information is available about civilian and military crash sites around the UK. In this, the second podcast relating to the Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea project [...]
  • Podcast: Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea (part one) - The following podcast relates to the ALSF Funded Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea: A Scoping Study project undertaken by Wessex Archaeology in late 2007. The project is looking at what information is available about civilian and military crash sites around the UK. In this podcast you will hear the Project Manager, Euan McNeill, discussing the origins [...]
  • Wrecks on the Seabed: Ecology - Ever wondered about the plants and animals that live on shipwrecks? What sorts of effects do these critters have on archaeological remains? Can the types of flora and fauna that chose to colonise a particular wreck tell us anything about the stability of the site, for example? These are some of the questions that Wessex Archaeology [...]
  • Discoveries dredged up from the Low Countries - The BMAPA/English Heritage Finds Protocol applies to aggregates dredged from UK waters and landed on the Continent. Following a number of useful reports, the ALSF Protocol Awareness Programme has been extended across the North Sea to Holland and Belgium. It was my job to visit aggregate wharves in Antwerp, Flushing and Amsterdam to give dredging company [...]