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HEADLAND IN THE MEDIA

April 2010 - Headland confirm confidence in industry prospects.Headland UK's Managing Director Tim Holden recently spoke to the Herald about the company and its prospects for the future. Read the article here.

April 2010 - Coverage of the opening of our Hereford office has appeared in the Scottish Press. Articles appeared in The Herald and The Scotsman over the Easter weekend. See the Scotsman article here

Mar 2010 - 'Local road ruins lead to archaeological award' - Article in the Tuam Herald detailing how Headland Archaeology's Brendon Wilkins won an award at The British Heritage Research Awards in London for the recent work on the N6 Galway to Ballinasloe road project. Download the pdf here

Jan 2010 - Archaeologists To Pave Way For UK - Ireland Underwater Energy Link Headland Archaeology has been awarded a £50K contract to provide transboundary marine archaeology consultancy services for a 260km underwater electric power cable linking Ireland with the UK.
Read more at the following links:
the archaeological box
Cork chamber of commerce
Irish industry News

Jan 2010 - News coverage of Headland Archaeology's successful tender for the New Ross bypass Various articles have appeared recently, documenting Headland Archaeology's successful bid to carry out the archaeological work in advance of the new N25 New Ross bypass in County Wexford.
Kilkenny advertiser
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New Ross Standard

Jan 2010 - Profile of Site Director Tara Doyle - Tara Doyle - Site Manager with Headland Archaeology is interviewed by the Evening Echo. Download the pdf here.

Dec 2009 - CERAMIC beads dating back 3,500 years and described as being of great significance have been discovered on the route of the new N9/N10 Athy Link Road. The series of 25 small ceramic beads, the only ones of their kind from the Bronze Age and a major coup for Irish archaeology, were discovered along with the cremated remains of a human body on the route. Read the full article in the Leinster Leader here, or download the pdf of the Kildare Nationalist newspaper article here.

Dec 2009 - 'Adelaide's lament' - Dan Atkinson is interviewed about Headland Archaeology's surveying of the iconic ship in a Times article that discusses the future of the 145-year old clipper, The City of Adelaide. See the article here.

Dec 2009 - Staff from Headland Archaeology in the Galway Independent - a profile of Caoimhe Ni Thoibin, our osteologist in the Galway office. See the article here.

Nov 2009 - Remains of 1,000 people recovered at medieval site Headland Archaeology's human remains specialists have been involved with analysing bodies from one of Ireland's largest medieval cemeteries. See the article here.

Oct 2009 - Headland spreading the word Headland have been involved in a recent public seminar designed to present discoveries along the route of the M7 in Ireland to the public. To find out more about the sites they excavated click here.

Sep 2009 - 'Bernie digs out the best in people' - a profile in the Evening Echo outlines how the Cork Office Manager Bernie Carney ended up working for Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd. Download pdf here.

Sep 2009 - Headland features in the Tradejournal.com - An article concerning Headland's work upon Edinburgh trams features on the site for construction industry news http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2009/09/16/71661/photos-human-skeletons-found-on-edinburgh-tram-project.html

Sep 2009 - Headland marks itself out against competitors for providing solutions to construction issues. Managing Director Tim Holden outlines some of the issues involved in providing professional archaeological services in an interview in the Daily Telegraph. Archaeology-business-Headland-needs-to-unearth-a-different-image

Sep 2009 - 'Headland is leaving no stone unturned ' Headland Archaeology receive coverage within the Sunday Business Post – Ireland’s largest selling business broadsheet. View here

Aug 2009 - 'Cork Chamber of Commerce' Headland Archaeology coverage within the Cork Chamber of Commerce magazine.

Aug 2009 - '4,000-year-old timber circle found in Tyrone' The remains of a timber circle from more than 4,000 years ago have been uncovered by archaeologists in County Tyrone - Article on the BBC News website. View here

Jul 2009 - 'Tyrone has a Stonehenge of its own' Reporting on one of the more interesting discoveries from the A4/5 in Northern Ireland - Article in the Tyrone Times View here

Jul 2009 - 'Bright future in digging up past' - Candy Hatherley, one of Headlands' Senior Archaeologists profiled in the Daily Express, 9th July 2009

Jun 2009 - 'Athy bones under the microscope' - An article in the Leinster Leader discussing the research into medieval human remains.

Jun 2009 - Headland Archaeology feature in an article for the Cork Chamber of Commerce - 'Unearthing a Niche Market: Archaeology and Wind Farms'

Jun 2009 - Profiles of Headland Ireland Directors featured in the magazine RSVP Appointments - Ross MacLeod and Damian Shiels

Jun 2009 - Online article in the 'Irish Times' - Changing Landscape of Archaeology http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0613/1224248736294.html

Jun 2009 - Online article in 'Building News' - UK Heritage Legislation Set To Make Waves http://www.buildingdesign-news.co.uk/2009/21-Headland-Archaeology-Environmental-impact-survey-210509.asp

Jun 2009 - Tim Holden is featured in an article in 'Business 7' - Read the article here

May 2009 - Colm Moloney makes an appearance on the Derek Mooney show - from about 45 minutes on... http://dynamic.rte.ie/quickaxs/209-rte-mooney-2009-05-21.smil

Apr 2009 - Construction Property News - Coverage within Construction Property News

Apr 2009 - Record Breaking Year For Headland - http://www.build.ie/construction_news.asp?newsid=92082

Apr 2009 - Press reports on Headland Archaeology's strong business performance - http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=2500887

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotlandseconomy/Profits-in-prehistory-as-.5156286.jp

Mar 2009 - Cork firm bullish over future as revenue grows - http://www.examiner.ie/business/idqleysngb/

Mar 2009 - Tram workers find secret chambers beneath Princes Street, Edinburgh - Mikael Simonsson, whilst monitoring tramworks, has discovered three mysterious underground chambers on Princes Street which could date as far back as the 18th century. http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburghtransportplans/Tram-workers-find-secret-chambers.5074445.jp

Feb 2009 - The first NVQs in Archaeological practice. - Julie Lochrie started with Headland on the workplace learning programme in 2007 as a prehistoric finds specialist. We are pleased that she is now employed as a full time specialist on our Edinburgh finds team. http://www.britarch.ac.uk/news/090212-workshops

Jan 2009 - Unlocking Terryland Castle's secrets - http://www.galwaynews.ie/6374-unlocking-terryland-castle039s-secrets

20th Jan 09 – Headland Archaeology’s Damian Shiels appeared on the BBC2 programme Britannia: the Great Elizabethan Journey with Nicholas Crane, discussing the 1601 Battle of Kinsale. View here.

Jan 2009 Junior Lotomau Sifa of Headland Archaeology Ireland gains an international rugby cap for the United States Eagles: read more here.

Jan 2009 Headland Archaeology's Dan Atkinson appears in an interview on the Radio 4 program'Hunting the Beagle'. Radio 4 follows maritime historian Robert Prescott as he tracks down the Beagle's last resting place. Listen here.

Oct 2008 The Buteman. 'New book tells story of Inchmarnock: Archaeologists in seven year island study'. A review of the work carried out by Headland Archaeology on the island of Inchmarnock. Read more here.

Apr 2008 Sunday Herald. 'Route of M74 extension offers insight into our past'. A profile of the work carried out by HAPCA, (Headland Archaeology and Pre-Construct Archaeology), on the route of the M74 extension dig. Read more here.

Feb 2008 Ireland MD, Colm Moloney - Profiled in Cork Independent here.

Jan 2008 Edinburgh Evening News. 'Unearthing city's vibrant past one tiny piece at a time'. Headland Archaeology's James McMeekin is interviewed on the excavation of Grassmarket, Edinburgh. Read more
here.


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