For further information on our projects, scroll below or click on the following headings:

- Heritage Management
- Public Archaeology
- Policy
- Interpretation & Design
 -Education & Outreach
- Historic & Built Environment
- Professional Placements
- Training in Field Archaeology
- Archaeology & Conservation
- Archaeology

HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow: UK candidate WHS
The Twin Monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow candidate World Heritage Site 2011 includes the churches of St. Peter Monkwearmouth and St. Paul, Jarrow, which still contain considerable standing Anglo-Saxon components, and the considerable (though buried) known archaeological remains of the accompanying monastic complexes. The buffer zone includes land and institutions managed by major stakeholders such as the National Glass Centre, Sunderland University, Bede’s World Museum, Port of Tyne, Shell Mex, and the two city councils. CAA ran Partnership workshops to facilitate discussion of issues of site governance and management, stakeholder participation, and information management, and new material was commissioned for the Management Plan and Nomination document. The CAA then edited and updated the nomination document and carried out a comprehensive redrafting of the structure and much of the content of the site management plan, integrating a great deal of new material in time for submission in late 2010.

With/for: The Wearmouth-Jarrow Partnership
Contact: Kirsty Norman

The Hadrian's Wall WHS Management Plan
In 2008, the CAA was commissioned to edit and complete the third Hadrian’s Wall WHS Management Plan. Kirsty Norman worked spent a period of 6 months working with the project team, coordinating the writing, editing, and design of the Plan.
Click here to view the third Hadrian's Wall WHS Management Plan

With/for: Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd
Contact: Kirsty Norman

Red Fort, India
Assistance with the development of a Management Plan for Red Fort, India. Advice on site management, building conservation, archaeology, interpretation and World Heritage nominations. Assistance in development of workshop.

With/for: CRCI / Archaeological Survey of India
Contact: Dominic Perring / Kirsty Norman

Niuheliang, China
The CAA provided advice on site management and conservation options for the site of Niuheliang, Liaoning Province in China. The work was undertaken in collaboration with the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology.

With/for: International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology
Contact: Tim Williams and Clifford Price

Public Archaeology in the Cyclades
In May 2009 the CAA co-hosted a meeting with the UCL Heritage Studies Group, at which Stelios Lekakis of Athens University and Monumenta reported on an ongoing public archaeology project on the island of Naxos. The CAA supports this early but important development in public archaeology in Greece, and is in discussion about possible future collaboration.
Click here to view the Public Meeting programme

With: Monumenta
Contact: Kirsty Norman

Whitehawk Camp Community Archaeology Project

The CAA (Archaeology South-East) is working with strategic partners to deliver remedial field work and an effective management plan for the site of this early Neolithic Scheduled Monument. The project will involve community engagement with a view to focusing primarily on protecting the site and an enhanced level of interpretation to the wider public.

With/for: Brighton and Hove City Council / East Sussex County Council / English Heritage / Brighton and Hove Archaeological Society
Contact: Matt Pope of Archaeology South East / Jon Sygrave of Archaeology South East

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POLICY

The Council of Europe ‘Baseline monitoring of the Granada Convention for the projection of the architectural heritage of Europe (1985)’
Ratified by 39 European states, the CoE convention was one of the first international texts to highlight the social value of built heritage, its contribution to economic development and the importance of including it in town planning and development policies. Sarah Wolferstan, who is one of the group of experts working on the project, will be piloting a questionnaire whose content she was instrumental in developing on the application of the convention.

The focus of the monitoring is how people value and conserve archictectural heritage; the new skills required by managers when facilitating their identification; climate change and historic buildings; the role of public, community and private sector and other actors in sustaining heritage. The end product will be an on-line monitoring tool to be used by representatives from government institutions in the CoE’s forty seven member states, with results available to the public at the European Heritage Network's website. The Member States who are participating at this stage include Cypus, Italy and the UK. The Member States who are participating at this stage include Cypus, Italy and the UK. This project builds on previous work undertaken by Sarah with the CoE in 2007-08 on monitoring the Valletta Convention (1992) for the protection of the archaeological heritage on behalf of the Council of Europe.

With/for: The Paul Drury Partnership and Council of Europe
Contact: Sarah Wolferstan

INTERPRETATION & DESIGN

Cloister Gallery, Dorchester on Thames
Our Principal Consultant for Heritage Interpretation and Museum Design Chris Hudson recieved a commendation for Best Permanent Exhibition in the 2006 Museum and Heritage awards for a display of medieval stronework salvaged from the original abbey building.
Click here to read more about Heritage Interpretation at the CAA.

Contact: Chris Hudson

Teachers Handbook
The CAA Education and Outreach Team developed a teacher's handbook for earthen archaeological sites. The book provides detailed information to teachers on how it can be used to support evidence-based and life-long learning. On-site educational activites can be undertaken, prepared and/or followed up in the classroom by using Resource and Activity sheets. These are developed incrementally over time when research progresses.
Click here to read more about Education and Outreach at the CAA.

Contact: Mike Corbishley / Kirsty Norman

HISTORIC & BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The ‘South Downs National Park', UK
A major Landscape Character Assessment project for the designated South Downs National Park. CAA were additionally commissioned to provide specialist advice relating to the development of the historic and built environments.

With/for: Land Use Consultants on behalf of Hampshire County Council
Contact: Richard James

PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENTS

Traineeship in Historic Building Recording
The ongoing English Heritage funded Rape of Hastings Architectural Survey includes a two year funded traineeship in Historic Building Recording and Interpretation.
Click here to read more about Professional Placements with the CAA.

With/for: English Heritage
Contact: Dominic Perring

EPPIC Placement in Archaeological Ceramics
The CAA, through its contract division Archaeology South-East, hosted an EPPIC placement in archaeological ceramics in 2006-2007. EPPIC (English Heritage Professional Placements in Conservation) placements are the result of a partnership between English Heritage, IFA and IHBC.
Click here to read more about Professional Placements at the CAA.
Click here o read more about EPPIC placements on the English Heritage Website.

With/for: English Heritage, IFA and IHBC
Contact: Dominic Perring

West Dean College, UK
The Institute of Archaeology student training project - involving excavation, geophysical survey, site interpretation and outreach activities.

A Centre for Applied Archaeology Project
With/for: Institute of Archaeology and West Dean College
Contact: Dominic Perring

Hili Archaeological Park, UAE

A team composed of CAA heritage and conservation specialists and archaeologisgts from ASE began work in December 2009 at the Hili Archaeological Park, a site which forms part of the proposed World Heritage Site in Al Ain, UAE, in close collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Authority for Cultural and Heritage.

Hili is an internationally important site and consists of a concentration of previously excavated Bronze Age tombs, Bronze and Iron Age settlement sites, Iron Age and Islamic era water management systems (falaj) as well as extensive evidence for the wider archaeological landscape derived from recent geophysical and topographical survey. CAA-ASE's work to date has involved archaeological impact assessments of the site and condition assessments and conservation strategies for the site's excavated remains. Detailed advice has been provided to the park's design team, with further input into research strategy, mitigation and conservation expected in the near future.

With/for: Abu Dhabi Authority for Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ron Humphrey

ARCHAEOLOGY

Beirut, Lebanon
Post-excavation and reporting on one of the largest programmes of Urban Rescue archaeology ever undertaken – involving the study of the houses, baths, and harbour of Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Beirut – within the context of post-war reconstruction.

A Centre for Applied Archaeology Project
Contact: Dominic Perring

Projects by Archaeology South-East
The contracts division of the CAA (Archaeology South-East) has completed over 2000 archaeological projects since it was established in 1974. The division is a Registered Organisation with the Institute of Field Archaeologists, which plays a lead role in monitoring adherence to best professional practice within the UK.

... read more about the ASE projects.

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