At Benchmark Archaeology we employ a wide range of survey strategies to meet the needs of individual projects. We can carry out walkover and photographic surveys to establish current land-use, crop, and access issues, and also preliminary field boundary/hedgerow surveys ahead of any in-depth environmental assessment.

Rapid sampling strategies employed by us include field-walking and systematic metal detector surveys to recover any surviving concentrations of surface artefacts and establish any need for further investigation via geo-physical survey or trial trenching. We also perform Topographical surveys that can identify the remains of buried remains of dwellings, banks and ditches. Geo-physical surveys can also be organised by Benchmark Archaeology.