NAU Archaeology provides the following services:

• Archaeological advice and consultancy assessment and analysis of the impact that development proposals may have on archaeological sites and historic environment more generally. We also provide management plans and mitigations schemes for inclusion with planning applications and for entering into agreements or applying for consents on nationally protected buildings, scheduled monuments, and registered landscapes. We can also provide auditing and advice on existing historic environment policies.
• Conservation Plans for historic buildings, estates, cemeteries and churches.
• Buildings Archaeology consisting of analysis, interpretation, graphic reporting, written reporting, photographic survey and CAD reconstructions, depending on the complexity of the structure and the agreed specification for the work.
• Conservation Area Appraisals utilising an approach to conservation assessment based on an in depth understanding of historic environment and the importance of historic grain. Reports can be provided in both standard written format and as GIS based layers, themes and metadata.
• Historic Environment Environmental Impact Assessments are required for certain large-scale planning applications and also for Strategic Environmental Assessments. It is important that a scoping opinion is carried out at an early stage to ensure that delays are minimised. Information on the agreed range of environmental and heritage impacts will be provided in the form of a technical report. NAU Archaeology can take the lead role in organising specialist input into an EIA, or act as a single specialist contributor. Information can also be provided in the form of GIS based layers, themes and metadata.
• Historic Environment and Archaeological Planning Advice for both policy appraisal and individual planning applications. Again, impact assessments can be undertaken, advice on likely planning requirements provided at a project’s inception stage and mitigation strategies formulated for submission to the planning authority. These will take the form of a written report. Information can also be provided in the form of GIS based layers, themes and metadata.
• Heritage Asset Management advice and documentation for appropriate management of a range of heritage assets, such as listed buildings, monuments and landscapes. This advice will take the form of written reports and may also utilise graphic and GIS based formats.
• Heritage Based Outreach and Public Relations comprising research, interpretation and graphic displays tailored for particular heritage assets or landscapes. Other means of outreach, such as webpages, leaflets and direct talks can also be arranged.
• Heritage Education Programmes which can be tailored to the curriculum and consist of hands on experience of how professional archaeologists carry out a range of projects.
• Heritage Economic Impact Consultancy we can provide data on audience development and targeting of tourism markets. This information can feed into feasibility studies for developing heritage assets as visitor attractions. This information will take the form of a technical report.
• Graphic Design and presentation for heritage assets this can take a number of formats: displays, webpages, leaflets and publications.
• GIShistoric environment information can be provided in GIS based format, i.e., consisting of layers, themes and with appropriate metadata tags.
• Historic Landscape Survey and Characterisation, increasingly heritage professionals and planners are realising that many landscape surveys are missing a time depth component, which allows a better understanding of a landscape’s vulnerability and capacity for change. Historic Landscape Characterisation, assessment and appraisal provides information both on the important historic components surviving within a landscape and the overall historical character of a given landscape. Advice on management of landscapes can be based on this information. Interpretation of a landscape’s capacity to absorb change and development can also be drawn from this information. The results of survey’s will likely be presented in both report form and as a GIS based information set comprising layers, themes and metadata.
• Coastal Historic Landscape Survey Characterisation and
  Threat Monitoring is much like Historic Landscape Characterisation but specifically tailored to a coastal environment and the inter-tidal zone.
• Urban Historic Survey and Characterisation this is an exercise similar to that undertaken for Historic Landscape Characterisation but in built-up urban areas, in which NAU Archaeology has a particular expertise. As stated in English Heritage’s guidance for Conservation Area Appraisal, characterisation forms the basis for appraisal. It also is an invaluable management and planning tool in itself. As with Landscape Characterisation, this information can be used to understand and urban area’s capacity to absorb changes including redevelopment. The results of this work will likely be presented in both report form and as a GIS based information set comprising layers, themes and metadata.
• Deposit modelling understanding of the archaeological implications of development is dependant on good information on the underlying archaeological deposit sequence. This information can be utilised for designing preservation schemes and informing planning policy more generally. The results of this work will likely be presented in both report form and as a GIS based information set comprising layers, themes and metadata.
• Archaeological evaluation through trial trenching consists of a sample of the area proposed for development being excavated through mechanical and manual means to provide a determination of the archaeological potential of the area and information that can be used to formulate a mitigation strategy and inform planning decisions.
• Geophysical Survey currently the fieldwork for this aspect is sub-contracted, however NAU Archaeology retain an overview of the work and link geophysical survey with other elements so that it is reported on in an integrated manner. Reports will take the form of plots contextualised within a written report and may be combined with other forms of information from for example trail trenching or field survey. This information can also be presented in a GIS based format.
• Environmental Archaeological Reports utilising palaeoenvironmental techniques these reports can be assessment or appraisals, or be carried out as part of a general mitigation scheme. Reports will take the form of graphs, drawings, tables and written description and interpretation. This information can also be presented in a GIS based format.
• Aerial Photographic Survey assessment of an area’s archaeological potential through examination of evidence from aerial photography. Reports will generally consist of reproductions and plots taken form original photographs and presented as drawings contextualised and interpreted in written form. This information can also be presented in a GIS based format.
• Geological Assessment in which the research potential is assessed prior to a planning application or as part of the SEA process. A survey utilising techniques such as geophysics and/or window samples are used to characterise the sequence, these can be coupled with a variety of scientific techniques to provide a detailed understanding of the underlying geological situation in order to make recommendations on mitigation strategies and inform planning decisions.
• Geological monitoring of quarry sites often the potential of making a record of recent geological sequences being affected by quarrying has been ignored, but increasingly this is seen as a key element of minerals extraction mitigation. A report is provided on the sequence from observations undertaken during mineral extraction consisting of reconstructed sections, environmental reports and written interpretation. This information can also be provided in a GIS based format.
• Archaeological Desk-based assessment assessment of the historic environment and archaeological resources within a specified area or landscape drawn from historical sources, archaeological and historic environment public records, such and the Norfolk Historic Environment Record and cartographic sources. May also include recommendations for further exploratory investigations or mitigations strategies. The results are presented in a report and may also be presented in GIS based format.
• Archaeological Evaluation by field-survey consists of field-walking or metal-detector survey. Artefactual evidence is collected from the soil (usually the plough-soil) with an accurate location and record of the conditions and later identified by specialists. The results are presented in a report and may also be presented in a GIS based format.
• Archaeological Excavation utilises a number of archaeological techniques for investigating archaeological remains within a specified area to record, interpret and develop research aims. The results are generally presented, after analysis, in a written report often disseminated through publication commensurate with the research value of the results.
• Archaeological Watching Brief and monitoring of works
  for archaeological information consists of archaeological observations made during construction works, where an archaeologist is present to monitor and record the presence and any available details on archaeological remains exposed by works. The results are presented in a written report.
• Archaeological Analysis and publication is undertaken on archaeological data according to national, regional and local research priorities. Publication is commensurate with the research importance of the data and varies from placing a report on the internet, through publication of reports within regional or national journals to production of books