With over twenty-five years of experience across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, Extent Heritage is an industry leader in archaeological assessment, investigation and management.
Our team’s skills include both archaeological fieldwork (survey, excavation, site avoidance and stakeholder engagement) and desktop inputs (GIS mapping, historical research, predictive modelling, artefact analysis and reporting). Extent Heritage provides clients with high-level strategic planning advice, including due diligence studies. We liaise with regulatory authorities to secure appropriate consents and ensure compliance with conditions of approval. Our services include heritage interpretation advice and artefact conservation.
Extent Heritage has specialist skills in the archaeology of military sites, cemeteries and the forensic investigation of recent mass burials.
We are proud of our commitment to occupational health and safety. Extent Heritage has a stringent HSE management system developed specifically for archaeological site work in rural, remote, and urban areas that complies with Australian and international standards including: AS/NZS 4801:2001, ISO 14001:2004, and ISO 31000:2009.
RECENT PROJECTS
Extent Heritage was engaged by the Australian government to prepare an archaeological zoning and management plan (AZMP) for known and potential archaeological resources within the Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (KAVHA), Norfolk Island.
Extent Heritage, and its Irish collaborators Research + Dig, were engaged by the Republic of Ireland to identify and assess the heritage attributes that combine to make Glendalough a heritage place. The aim was to assess Glendalough’s archaeological, architectural, historical and spiritual dimensions, to establish an appropriate heritage boundary, and to inform future heritage management processes, including future heritage listings.
Extent Heritage were commissioned by Cedar Pacific to undertake historical archaeological assessment of 293-303 La Trobe Street, Melbourne in advance of the development of the site.
Extent Heritage WA carried out archaeological and ethnographic surveys across parts of Western Australia’s Midwest in collaboration with representatives of the Southern Yamatji Native Title Claim Group.
Extent Heritage was engaged (in partnership with Lovell Chen) to prepare a Heritage Management Plan for Fremantle Prison - a place inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The managers of the TWWHA are now well-placed to implement culturally sensitive management regimes that meet the needs and expectations of Aboriginal communities, the Tasmanian State Government, ICOMOS, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the World Heritage Committee.
We are proud of the role that we have played in ensuring the dignified and respectful management of the Aboriginal heritage values embodied by the QVM. Our work has resulted in the place's heritage values being communicated and understood so that appropriate processes are in place to protect its diverse heritage values, while assisting the City of Melbourne to design and deliver its renewal program.
Our work yielded large quantities of highly significant archaeological data crucial to reconstructing our ancient past, while we worked closely with our client to minimise delays to the development of major road infrastructure.
Extent Heritage has assisted the Queensland government to expedite the management of heritage issues at a development with considerable economic implications for the state.
Extent Heritage played an important part in the development of a policy framework and action plan for the ongoing conservation of an iconic heritage place with significance to not just Australians but also the people of Papua New Guinea, America and Japan.
Extent Heritage was tasked with creating an interpretative display within Skittle Lane at the site, focused on nine thousand artefacts discovered in two early nineteenth century wells during construction works at the property.
Extent Heritage was commissioned to prepare a conservation management plan (CMP) for the Former Liverpool Courthouse, in response to planned restoration work and future adaptive reuse of the site.
Extent Heritage was commissioned to prepare a conservation management plan (CMP) for the State Heritage Register-listed Collingwood House, in response to planned restoration work and future adaptive reuse of the site.
Extent Heritage, working on behalf of PDG and in accordance with Heritage Victoria approvals, have made some very interesting discoveries during our recent excavations at the Munro site, located opposite the Queen Victoria Market in central Melbourne.