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The year is 1996…Dolly the Sheep has just been cloned, the Spice Girls debuted with ‘Wannabe’, the Olympics is held in Atlanta, but by far the biggest news of all… Headland Archaeology win their first contract!
The ‘forestry contract’ is really where it all began. The aim was to provide pre-afforestation surveys for Historic Scotland (Now Historic Environment Scotland) in connection with applications under the then ‘Woodland Grant Scheme’.
The largest applications were some 700-800 hectares, while the smallest were around 4-5 hectares, and it was a project that took the original Headlanders to almost every corner of Mainland Scotland, with a few trips to North Uist, Skye and other islands along the way. These surveys required information to be delivered to Historic Scotland about the cultural heritage of each area within a tight timescale.
The total area covered by 79 upland surveys ended up being just under 11,800 hectares, with over 500 new entries added to the National Monument Record of Scotland (NMRS), mostly including prehistoric hut circles or medieval shieling grounds.
