Giving new life to an existing building, improving visitor access and providing information about the SSSI and ancient woodland on the Heights of Abraham estate.

The ‘Vision’ takes shape at the Heights of Abraham, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire as groundworks are completed and buildings repurposed. The vision is to bring the estate’s history back into focus as it continues to play a leading role in Derbyshire tourism.

Beneath where the bridge stood, 3,600 Roman objects were found. Our job was to interpret and visualise how the bridge may have looked and been used.

Titled, A Mirror on the Past, the exhibition reflects on how fashion and dress codes have evolved over the last 250 years and how dressing for a day out has changed from high cost, high fashion and ‘Sunday best’ to the very casual attire of shorts and tee shirts we see today.

Woodland Corner: a classroom, exhibition, demonstration area and picnic spot. Developed as a stand alone venue within the woodland environment.

Covid-19 has made many demands on venues to keep their visiting public safe. We worked with our client to create more all weather outdoor spaces using historic reference as our inspiration.

Improved visitor access to the Heights of Abraham has been secured following the proposed closure by Network Rail of the pedestrian route from Matlock Bath. The new raised walkway provides a safe and attractive route to the estate.

Monumental recently completed a heritage review and the creation of the ‘Heights Vision’. Decision-makers now have reference material, a master plan and strategy to identify how the estate’s heritage can be used for thematic interpretation and engagement with modern audiences.

Dr Aaron Watson has joined Kilmartin Museum as a Project Manager and Researcher.

Earlier in the year, Aaron Watson was interviewed at an archaeological site in western Scotland for the first episode in the new series of BBC TV’s Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs, which was broadcast this week.

The wait is over… Kilmartin Museum has received a confirmed grant of £3.2 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) bringing their total fundraising close to the £6.7million target.

This May and June, Aaron Watson has been working with with two media companies on film projects in Argyll, Orkney and Wiltshire.

Aaron Watson was in Kilmartin Museum this week to photograph the Coll Hoard. This remarkable collection of Bronze Age artefacts has recently been returned to the Museum following the completion of specialist conservation procedures. 

Aaron Watson has presented a research paper to the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, hosted by Cardiff University.

Aaron Watson is working with the Kilmartin Museum Redevelopment Project as a Curatorial Advisor.  

In early June, Aaron Watson spent a day in Llangollen Museum recording an unusual medieval stone slab using photography and photogrammetry. The final results are now available...

Aaron Watson has been interviewed by BBC Radio 4 for an episode of Open Country. Aaron was asked to interpret prehistoric rock carvings in the light of excavations he co-directed with Professor Richard Bradley.

Earlier in the year Kilmartin Museum launched a crowdfunding campaign featuring our photography. The Museum recently announced that it has now raised the funds required to preserve the Coll Hoard. 

After crossing the wintry Cairngorm mountains from Inverness, Aaron Watson had the chance to visit one of a series of Pearls in Peril panels Monumental produced for Scottish Natural Heritage in 2016.

Aaron Watson spent a day working with Dr. Sharon Webb, Curator at Kilmartin Museum, photographing a variety of vulnerable Bronze Age artefacts excavated on the Isle of Coll. The images are to be used for a crowdfunding appeal to secure funding to conserve these remarkable objects.