ArchaeologyCollectiveAnnual Review 2018 - 2019

1930s wall painting from project in Piccadilly

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Archaeology Collective is a subsidiary of Heritage

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Registered Office: 9 Goldington Road, Bedford,

Bedfordshire, England, MK40 3JY

Foreword

Archaeology Collective has steadily grown since its inception four years ago. In 2018 we opened an office in Leeds, in addition to our London office, to aid our expansion in the north of England.

We had a presence at the HS2 Economic Growth conference in Birmingham, a great networking opportunity, as well as the Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA) and the 50 year celebration of the London Archaeologist. We also attended a British Property Foundation ‘Opening Doors’ event on ‘Diversity in the Property Industry’ and the 2018 Stonewall Workplace Conference.

We look forward to 2019 with the prospect of further growth, training and staff development. The following review includes Archaeology Collective’s recent projects and an insight into the work of our sister companies, Landscape Collective and Heritage Collective, as well as the support services that bring all three Collectives together. Joe Abrams, Director

4 GROWING THE TEAM

During 2018 we were pleased to see Becky Ryan continuing to develop archaeological consultancy in the north of England, and we welcomed Rachael Townend and Charly Vallance to the team. Rachael is well placed to take on new sites in the West Midlands and Wales, and Charly is based in the Manchester area. This expansion has led Archaeology Collective to open a new base in Leeds. Shortly before going to press we were delighted that Sylvia White joined us to strengthen our London team. Late in 2018 John Lord, Associate Director in Archaeology Collective, took up a secondment with Landscape Collective to strengthen their historic landscape capability.

Growing the team

Anne Johnson

Robin Densem

Charly Vallance

Rachael Townend

Becky Ryan

Slyvia White

Our Projects

6 OUR PROJECTS

With the increasing importance of ‘brownfield’ sites in local planning strategies, the management of archaeological works relating to our industrial history is ever more a part of Archaeology Collective’s work, including a project at Falcon

Works, Stoke. Field evaluation, managed from our Leeds office, uncovered and recorded the buried remains of a large 19th century pottery kiln which has enhanced knowledge of the site beyond that available from documentary sources alone.

Falcon Works, Stoke

The foundations and floor of a 19th century circular ‘bottle’ kiln ‘Bottle’ kilns, listed grade II, with the foundations of another such kiln in the foreground

7OUR PROJECTS

The most recent work for the Archaeology Collective team at this church and burial ground resulted in a detailed phase of excavation including multiple internments to enable a new extension to the church. Close work with architect and engineers

enabled many remains to be preserved in situ and the stability of the church structure was ensured. The project was ready for publication in 2018, within one year of fieldwork completion - a commendable performance for all involved.

St Peter’s Church, Petersham

Joe Abrams, Director of Archaeology Collective (centre) with the Reverend Canon Tim Marwood and Melissa Melikian, Operations Director, AOC Archaeology

A 19th century finger-ring in the form of a serpent, found during the excavation of the grave of a woman at St Peter’s Church and reburied with her when the remains were reinterred

8 OUR PROJECTS

Archaeology Collective managed geophysicalsurvey and trial trenching for a planning application for a 140,500m2 commercial greenhouse at Rotherdale Farm, Throckmorton. We were also able to navigate the client through an increasingly complex set of options, supported by our subcontractors SUMO and Cotswold Archaeology.

The excavation revealed a late Iron Age enclosed settlement containing roundhouses, pits, a six-post structure and a well. An important blue glass bead of prehistoric date was also found.

Rotherdale Farm, Throckmorton, Worcestershire

9OUR PROJECTS

Diageo Pensions Limited commissioned Archaeology Collective to discharge planning conditions relating to this site.  We negotiated the scope and managed the evaluation, which was carried out by Pre-Construct Archaeology.

The evaluation identified late ninth to twelfth century rubbish pits, post medieval quarry pits, wall foundations and the basement of a Victorian malthouse that was demolished in the 1970s when the shopping centre was built.

Bircherley Green Shopping Centre, Hertford

Early Medieval pot

10 OUR PROJECTS

Archaeology Collective has been managing the site investigations at Dyers Hall in the City of London, following the grant of planning permission in August 2018 for the construction of a lift extension. The site contains the Scheduled Monument of Dyers Hall, a mid-19th century livery hall, built in 1839-40 to the designs of Charles Dyer. This replaced an earlier hall built in 1769. Scheduled Monument Consent was granted in March 2018. It is known that the hall is a significant testament to

the development of commercial activity and trade regulation in the City of London. The site retains potential for archaeological and environmental information relating to the earlier Dyers Hall, earlier houses, and Roman London, sited as it is in close proximity to the remains of a Roman imperial palace and the Roman waterfront or wharf of Londinium. Excavations in recent months have revealed Roman material, include the painted stone mouldings photographed below.

Dyers Hall, Dowgate Hill, London

Painted stone mouldings recovered at Dyers Hall, London (courtesy Pre-Construct Archaeology)

11OUR PROJECTS

Archaeology Collective managed the archaeological evaluation, undertaken by AOC Archaeology, in Ealing, Greater London. Out of the twelve trenches only two contained archaeological remains; a brick drain and a ditch infilled with household items including pottery and animal bones during the 17th and 18th centuries. Some of the more interesting finds included wig curlers (bottom right

of photograph). It is likely that these finds relate to a house marked on historic mapping, which lay outside the site. The results of the archaeological trenching were sufficient to meet the requirements of the planning condition and no further archaeological work, beyond the production of the report, was required.

Ada Lovelace School, Ealing

12 OUR PROJECTS

The Union Cinema on Gordon Street in Luton opened in October 1937 on the former site of the Welch & Sons Straw Hat Factory. Known as the Ritz it was designed by Kemp and Tasker and was converted to a bingo hall and night club. It has

been highly altered internally, (including the removal of its original Wurlitzer organ). Archaeology Collective discharged a building recording condition attached to the planning permission for redevelopment behind a retained façade.

Union Cinema, Luton

Dagenham Retail Park

13OUR PROJECTS

The results of the archaeological investigations at Dagenham Retail Park, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham were published in the London Archaeologist, Winter 2018.

Archaeology Collective wrote the initial desk-based assessment and then managed the subsequent fieldwork comprising evaluation trial trenching, strip, map sample and a watching brief, undertaken by AOC Archaeology. The archaeological fieldwork

identified an early Iron Age farmstead, with a small round building, together with a sub-rectangular pit or working hollow that may have been roofed, a ditch and part of a possible stock enclosure. A further interesting discovery was a small semi-circular pit beside the round building. The pit contained parts of four ceramic pots, thought to be of early Iron Age date which lay in small groups, indicating careful placement in a single event. The relevant planning conditions have been discharged.

14 OUR PROJECTS

Landscape Collective was asked to address both landscape and arboricultural conditions associated with the grant of planning permission for comprehensive regeneration of the grade II listed Beltwood House in Dulwich. Complex negotiations were required to manage the sensitive removal of trees covered by a woodland tree preservation order and within a conservation area. In combination with the arboricultural report, detailed hard and soft landscape proposals were produced to provide a comprehensive landscape scheme for the site. All conditions were discharged in November 2018.

Beltwood House, Dulwich

15OUR PROJECTS

Landscape Collective prepared a townscape and visual impact assessment for a new luxury hotel. Designed by PRP Architects, the landmark Hotel La Tour, at 14 storeys, will enhance the skyline of Central Milton Keynes. The site is sensitively located close to the grade II listed Milton Keynes Shopping Centre, Centre:MK and Campbell Park, an important local open space.

Landscape Collective extended their involvement in the project by designing the external area to the new hotel, providing a contemporary environment that respects the existing landscape treatment of the surrounding area.

Hotel La Tour, Milton Keynes

05 I Brand Guide I Our logo

Our logoMono and colour print versions

Two colour special — Prints in PMS 533c and PMS 873c

CMYK — Prints from CMYK artwork

Mono line black positive — Prints in black only from artwork

Two colour special negative — Prints out of background and PMS 873c

CMYK negative — Prints from CMYK artwork

Mono line negative — Prints out of background

Hotel La Tour Milton Keynes

Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment

November 2017

16 OUR PROJECTS

This grade II* listed 17th century manor house is a private residence, both in real life and in Downton Abbey as the Dowager Violet’s residence. We assisted with three listed building applications over the course of 2018 relating to alterations and extensions affecting the manor complex; the restoration of and widening of a grade II listed Jacobean gateway; and, a striking new glasshouse within the setting of the manor where the high quality of the design by H2Architects was identified as a complementary next stage in the story of this historic place.

Byfleet Manor, Surrey

17OUR PROJECTS

Heritage Collective advised on the radical transformation proposals for the Hammersmith Town Hall project, involving close working with the design team at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and housing provider A2 Dominion. Planning permission and listed building consent were granted in February

2019 for a new roof extension to the listed Town Hall (grade II) along with new residential, commercial and retail blocks, all within The Mall Conservation Area. The scheme will remove the current 1970s Town Hall extension, revealing the original north elevation of the listed building and greatly enhancing the townscape of King Street.

Hammersmith Town Hall

The Team

Stonewall Workplace Conference, Manchester 28th Sept 2018

Rachael Townend represented Archaeology Collective

at the Stonewall Workplace Conference in Manchester in

September, one of two held each year focusing on LGBT

issues. This year the theme was Trans rights, which was

apt for Rachael to attend as probably the most senior

trans person currently employed in

British archaeology.

The 2018 YouGov/Stonewall Trans Report revealed that

half of all trans and non-binary people have hidden or

disguised the fact that they are LGBT at work because

they are afraid of discrimination. With this in mind,

the opening session of the conference was about the

importance of visible role models. Rachael takes pride

in being such a role model not only within the trans

community but in the archaeological sphere and the

wider business.

Workshops at the conference focused on inclusivity in

recruitment, creating trans-inclusive workplaces and

making the most of employee networks such as LGBT

network groups as well as the importance of mental

health support structures. Over half of the 5,000 LGBT

people surveyed in 2018 for the Stonewall Health Report

suffered depression in the

year of the survey. This is

significantly higher than the

national average for adults.

The take-away from the

closing session for Rachael was that nobody

should be afraid to stand up and be seen as the

person they are. Visibility brings benefits to the

individual, their colleagues, their employers -

and wider professional networks.

Centenary Celebrations

Anne Johnson is a trustee for the charity for the

parish church of St. Giles, Noke, just outside Oxford

and spent time in November 2018 setting up a

small exhibition in the church to commemorate the

centenary of the end of World War I.

Outreach

www.stonewall.org.uk/lgbt-britain-trans-report

www.stonewall.org.uk/lgbt-britain-health

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/fundamental-facts-about-mental-health-2016

19THE TEAM

20 EVENTS

We attended two CIfA events in 2018. The joint CIfA and RTPI event ‘Highlighting collaboration across planning, archaeology & heritage’, hosted by Eversheds, covered some key issues. The ‘Future Funding of archaeology and heritage in development’ highlighted risks to the sector through lack of local planning authority resources and changes to the planning system.

In October Joe Abrams gave a talk to the Hitchin Historical Society about excavations in the centre of Luton, where archaeological remains have survived between the piles and basements of multi-storey buildings dating from the 1970s.

20

Events

Our ‘Team Northern Powerhouse’ attended the HS2 Economic Growth conference in Birmingham. There were several presentations and panels focusing on the ‘hub’ stations, as well as the opportunity to network with clients and colleagues.

Charly and Becky at the HS2 Economic Growth Conference

14th century coin from Bedfordshire as featured in Joe Abrams talk to the Hitchin Historical Society. (Copyright Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd)

21EVENTS 2121

Public Inquiry Training

In April 2018 the whole company came together for a public inquiry training day. Lucy Jarvis made an admirably serious “Planning Inspector”, and each Collective fielded volunteers acting as heritage, landscape and archaeology witnesses who prepared proofs of evidence and who were cross examined by other team members acting as counsel for three parties (a fictitious planning authority from the Home Counties, a fictitious “Rule 6” party and a fictitious appellant). Other team members asked questions from the “public gallery”. It was a very successful day giving many their first small taste of what such an event is like. The fact that we could credibly put together three teams of “barristers” and expert witnesses from within our own company was no small achievement.

Sketches by Jody O’Reilly

22 THE TEAM

Accounts

In March 2018 Accounts Administrator Carol Kens joined our thriving team. Carol,

who for many years worked in the Accounts team at Ford, is focusing on supplier

relationships, expenses and purchase invoice processing. She joins a busy team

headed by Associate Finance Director Dominika Osimowicz. The team, also including

Della Duncan and Nicoleta Onisoru, works closely with our consultants. From running

credit checks, monitoring project progress and ensuring the smooth issue of invoices

and payment, our team strives to build relationships with finance professionals at our

client and suppliers’ businesses. This makes for a good natured and smooth running

operation. Our Accounts team do a pretty good job - one could even say they get a bit

big-headed about it - as demonstrated on a bonding away trip with Beats Carnival.

Personnel

From the autumn of 2018 existing staff member Sophie Meakin moved to the role

of Personnel Officer. The company is supporting Sophie through a CIPD diploma

in Human Resources Management. We are already benefiting from Sophie’s warm

personality and organisational skills.

Reception

Anyone calling the landlines for Heritage Collective, Archaeology Collective

or Landscape Collective will be greeted by the dulcet tones of our Receptionist

Cynthia Cook. With us since 2017 Cynthia is on hand to guide your calls and take

messages, being a familiar voice to many of you. Tracking staff whereabouts daily,

Cynthia also helps ensure our health and safety and buddying procedures are

followed. When not at work and on the phone, Cynthia has very green fingers and

is a dab hand in the garden.

Behind the Scenes

23THE TEAM

JonathanEdis

IgnusFroneman

LucyJarvis

DanielleMorgan

The Board of Heritage Collective UK Limited

Archaeology Collective is a subsidiary of Heritage

Collective UK Limited, the Board of which is made up

of Liz Vinson, Lucy Jarvis, Ignus Froneman, Danielle

Morgan and Jonathan Edis. All the Board Directors

are actively engaged in consultancy, financial

management, and the day-to-day running of the

company. Jon Lowe, who was one of the original

Directors of Heritage Collective, left during the year to

pursue other business interests and we wish him well

in his new ventures. The Board is keen to build on the

company’s multi-disciplinary approach to heritage,

archaeology and landscape, and to see staff develop

and benefit from the opportunities arising from joint

working. We are pleased to have the opportunity to

contribute to the 2019 Parliamentary Review, where

we will be showcasing these objectives.

LizVinson

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