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Linear infrastructure project | Archaeological services| Working hand in hand with construction

Development of a commercial estate| Pre-construction archaeological survey 

Development of a housing estate | Segment of a neolithic ditch system in a longitudinal section 

New housing estate = old housing estate | 2000-year-old traces of human habitation | Quarter section of a pit

New residential building in the old town | Archaeological documentation tells the site’s story 

Restoration and redesign of a palace square | Archaeological investigation layer by layer during construction 

Linear infrastructure trenches | Relocating excavation work away from the site | Block recovery of an extraordinary warrior’s grave

Redesign of the market square outside a church | A burial is discovered...

Roadworks | Archaeological investigation and salvage of an early modern urban cemetery to maximum depth of construction

Development of a residential estate | Recovery of a 1200-year-old sword for conservation by the state heritage department

Construction of a new university building | Archaeological investigation of an early modern cemetery

New construction in an old city quarter | Public interest in excavated features prior to removal

Redesign of a marketplace | Earthworks for a new fountain unexpectedly uncover archaeological features (Gutingi)

Restoration of a half-timbered building | Construction and archaeology in tight quarters

Construction of a new urban office block | Remains of a well and soil features from previous medieval/post-medieval construction

Development of a new hotel with underground parking | Historical cellar | Photogrammetric documentation instead of a hand sketch expedites construction work

Covid | Progress at a distance...

Site of a new day-care centre| Pre-construction archaeological survey | Block recovery of an urn

Rebuilding the canal wall | Archaeological investigation and removal of modern construction to reveal the oldest embankments

Touristic development of a castle site | Archaeological survey and documentation of an area| Unanswered questions about the layout

Construction of a memorial at the satellite concentration camp Ahlem | Archaeological documentation of the remains of barrack foundations and a post-war Nissen hut (crosswise)

Memorial at the site of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen | Archaeological documentation of built heritage | Delousing station

New housing estate | This system of drainage ditches is a relic of a historical planting | Cross profile for verification

Housing development | Trial trenching | Archaeological potential was not confirmed despite optimal conditions for a settlement

Linear project | Archaeological supervision of earthworks | Articulated excavator with flat-edged shovel to verify site potential 

Motorway expansion A1 | Public-private partnership project | Coordination of archaeological heritage conservation | Insight into known archaeological site at Groß Meckelsen

Sand mining | Drone imaging during backfill of test trenches | Building footprint in the expansion area

New housing development | Excavation of profiles and systematic recovery of artefacts

School construction | Archaeological monitoring of demolition works | A pottery had previously been identified here, and evidence remained despite later site development