Apart from advice and consultancy, it also does fieldwork and publishes research on the sites it surveys.

The company has had a long association with the archaeological television programme Time Team.

Wessex Archaeology is a Chartered Institute for Archaeologists Registered Organisation.

[3] It was one of the first rescue archaeology units in the country, focussing on the numerous sites in and around Salisbury Plain.

[4] Since the advent of developer-funded archaeology with PPG 16 and its successor, PPS5, it has expanded its commercial operations across the UK with offices in Gravesend and Sheffield.