UWLAS Archaeological Services

Quaternary sedimentary stratigraphy

Recording and sampling of marine interglacial deposits at Pear Tree Knap, West Sussex. Investigating Quaternary sequences forms a key part of the research and contract activity of Dr Martin Bates, with the assistance of Mrs Su Bates.  Martin Bates has more than 20 years’ experience of Quaternary science on a wide range of sites in both the UK and further afield.  Presently our major focus is on the gravel aggregates of southern England.  Projects have been funded by English Heritage through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund and provide the mechanism through which detailed Palaeolithic archaeological and geological projects have been undertaken on the West Sussex Coastal Plain/Solent River and the Medway of Eastern Kent.

Interglacial estuarine deposits at Stone Point, Hampshire, excavated as part of the Aggregates Levy Project on the Palaeolithic archaeology of the Sussex-Hampshire coastal corridor.

Service provided

  • Excavation of straight-tusked elephant on the Ebbsfleet site, Channel Tunnel Rail Link. On-site sediment and stratigraphic analysis
  • Advice of sampling  and dating of sequences
  • Integration of stratigraphic, biological and chronological evidence
  • Field project direction
  • Integration of Quaternary science and Palaeolithic archaeology

For further information/advice or quotation in relation to this service, please contact Dr Martin Bates
(tel: +44(0)1570 424908; e-mail: m.bates@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk)