Contractor / consultant Number of field evaluations recorded 1990-1999
Museum of London Archaeology Service 836
Oxford Archaeological Unit 445
Wessex Archaeology 442
Thames Valley Archaeological Services 306
AC Archaeology 262
Hertfordshire Archaeological Trust 233
Cotswold Archaeological Trust 229
Surrey County Archaeological Unit 206
Norfolk Archaeological Unit 192
Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit 189
Canterbury Archaeological Trust 174
Northamptonshire Archaeology 161
Lancaster University Archaeological Unit 142
Pre-Construct Archaeology 129
Cambridge Archaeological Unit 124
Geophysical Surveys of Bradford 123
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service 122
Archaeology South-East 107
Suffolk County Council Archaeological Section 104
Northern Archaeological Associates 103

Table 3: Summary of the top twenty archaeological contractors carrying out field evaluations in England between 1990 and 1999, ordered in terms of the number of reports recorded by the AIP, after Darvill and Russell (2002) Table W16.