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Let There Be Light! (But Check for Archaeology First…)

We have just completed an evaluation of our first solar farm in Devon in collaboration with our associates AB Heritage Ltd. These developments are quickly becoming a significant contributor of…

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Archaeology & Construction in 2014: Early Warnings of A Potential Recovery?

The archaeological profession in both the UK and Ireland has been severely impacted in recent years by recession. This is unsurprising given how closely the fortunes of commercial archaeology are…

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Another view of one of the Welsh barrows under excavation (Rubicon Heritage)

The Process of Discovery: Preparing Llandeilo’s Bronze Age Cremations for Analysis

Rubicon have a team constantly working on archaeological processing. We have a facility which includes flotation tanks, drying rooms, sorting and storage areas that allows us to tackle numerous types…

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Processing Cremation burials (Rubicon Heritage)

Rubicon Photo of the Week: Sorting Prehistoric Cremations

This week's photos of the week, taken today, shows Rubicon's Enda O'Flaherty carefully sorting through samples from a Prehistoric cremation burial, from which he is extracting all available scientific information,…

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George Osborne’s Planning Reforms: Brownfield Revolution or Archaeological Nightmare?

Last Friday Chancellor George Osborne announced a plan to build 200,000 homes on brownfield sites by 2020. The process puts the responsibility on the local authority for pre-approving planning on…

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Development Led Archaeology: a step-by-step guide

Your planning permission is agreed, your finance arranged, and your construction team ready to roll. But what’s this? A letter from the Local Planning Authority insisting that:

No development shall take place until the applicant, or their agents or successors in title, has secured the implementation of a programme of archaeology carried out in accordance with the Written Scheme of Investigation for an archaeological excavation, post excavation and publication exercise.” Continue reading “Development Led Archaeology: a step-by-step guide” »

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Rubicon’s Quality Assurance Recognition

Rubicon Heritage Services were recently confirmed as a Registered Organisation by the Institute for Archaeologists, the first Irish based company to be admitted to this quality assurance scheme. Following a…

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