It’s our birthday!
This year, ARS Ltd. is celebrating 15 years in operation as an incorporated company.
We were founded initially, in 1999, by our Managing Director, Dr Clive Waddington, when the business operated out of Newcastle as a one-man operation, but on the 18th August 2004 we were incorporated as a limited company in Sheffield.
Success and expansion followed and in January 2005 we opened our current headquarters in Bakewell and in November later that year we opened a regional office in Newcastle. From these beginnings in 2004 we have become a nationwide business operating out of five offices with over 50 members of staff.
We have completed hundreds of projects throughout Britain, some of which have featured on numerous programmes including Time Team, Digging for Britain, Countryfile, Secret Britain, and BBC News, to name only a few!
Since the very beginning it has been our mission to use archaeology to inspire and contribute to society and we are proud to have had over 5000 volunteers excavate with us on various projects over the years. Many of our volunteer projects have been honoured with national awards such as our collaborative work with local groups at the Iron Age hillfort of Fin Cop where over 400 people took part in a project which won Best Community Project at the 2010 British Archaeological Awards, as well as Research Project of the Year at the 2012 Current Archaeology Awards.