Ports, Harbours and Capital Dredging

WA C&M work for ports and harbours ranges from relatively small watching briefs to supporting major developments that cut across land, coast and sea. As well as dredging associated directly with harbour works, we have also addressed channel dredging far out at sea.

Our work in support of ports and harbours encompasses our full range of services, from strategic desk-based work to identify risks, to excavation and recovery of shipwrecks. We seek to work closely with developers to achieve a high level of integration between site investigations for engineering purposes - be they geotechnical, geophysical or diver-based - and archaeological interpretation.

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Splash items relating to ports, harbours and capital dredging:

  • Thames Shipwrecks - Recent work by Wessex Archaeology in the Thames Estuary has been captured in two BBC programmes Thames Shipwrecks: a race against time. The programmes have been produced by Touch Productions and broadcast on BBC2 on Tuesday 26 August and Tuesday 2 September 2008. The programmes examine a series of wrecks within the main navigation channels looked [...]
  • Princes Channel Wreck - The Princes Channel Wreck is a medium-sized armed merchant ship linked to the Elizabethan financier Thomas Gresham, which was found in the Thames in 2003. We carried out a series of investigations that resulted in the recovery of the surviving hull structure and a range of artefacts in 2004. An interim report on the Princes [...]