HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY (UK) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC342945 · ltd · incorporated 2008-05-15

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Stable recent picture — watch for any upcoming trigger event.

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

£17.51M

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Leverage-led grower with a 65-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 57/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 6 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (57/100).

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Refinance opportunity

10 live charges · 6 lenders · oldest 18.0y

25/100

too messy

Structure is too messy for a clean refinance right now — clean up first or expect bespoke terms.

· Oldest live charge is 18.0 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· 6 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
· Legal-friction score 53/100 (high).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

10 charges (10/10 with lender, 10/10 with type)

Directors & officers

21 officers (11 active, 21 linked, 19 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared

Director network

28 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

100 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Profitable

Profit before tax £2,002,680

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31
Turnover	£17.51M
Gross profit	£4.30M
Profit before tax	£2.00M
Average employees	19100

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

4 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filings

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (69 events)Click to expand

2025-10-03
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accounts · AA
2025-04-03
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officers · AP01
2025-04-02
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officers · TM01
2025-04-01
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HERLIHY, Francis appointed
director
2025-04-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-31
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DRAPER, Abigail Sarah resigned
director
2025-02-20
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-01-14
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officers · AP01
2025-01-13
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officers · AP01
2025-01-13
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2025-01-01
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MOONEY, George appointed
director
2025-01-01
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WHITE, Duncan Ian appointed
director
2025-01-01
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WHIPP, Peter Frederick resigned
director
2024-11-04
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-09-16
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mortgage · MR01
2024-09-15
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mortgage · MR01
2024-09-06
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Charge registered #10
Lender: Ares Management Limited (As Security Agent)
2024-09-06
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Charge registered #9
Lender: Ares Management Limited as Security Trustee for the Secured Parties (As Defined in the Instrument)
2024-07-16
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2024-07-15
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2024-07-12
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NORTON, Andrew Peter appointed
director
2024-07-12
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COLEMAN, Russel John resigned
director
2024-06-13
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-01-18
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-11-03
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-11-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2023-11-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-11-02
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-12-22
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accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-03-30
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mortgage · MR04
2022-03-30
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Charge satisfied #6
2022-03-30
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Charge satisfied #5
2022-03-30
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Charge satisfied #4
2022-03-30
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Charge satisfied #3
2022-03-30
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Charge satisfied #2
2021-08-06
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Charge registered #8
Lender: Ares Management Limited (As Security Trustee for Itself and the Other Secured Parties (as Defined in the Instrument))
2021-08-06
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Charge registered #7
Lender: Ares Management Limited (As Security Agent)
2020-08-18
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Charge registered #6
Lender: Ares Management Limited (As Security Trustee for the Secured Parties (as Defined in the Instrument))
2020-08-18
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Charge registered #5
Lender: Ares Management Limited (As Security Agent)
2020-05-11
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Charge satisfied #1
2020-05-06
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TOWLE, Andrew Charles appointed
director
2019-11-12
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BOARD, Nigel Paul appointed
director
2019-11-12
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PIERRI, Marilily appointed
director
2019-10-18
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Charge registered #4
Lender: Ares Management Limited (As Security Agent)
2019-10-18
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Charge registered #3
Lender: Ares Management Limited
2019-10-04
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HOLDEN, Timothy Gerald, Dr resigned
director
2019-10-04
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LOWE, Christopher Edmund, Dr resigned
director
2019-07-30
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WHIPP, Peter Frederick appointed
director
2019-06-07
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Ares Management Limited
2019-03-08
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EVANS, Sally appointed
secretary

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Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-10 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 16 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

63/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 16 years.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

2 corporate shareholders identified. Group structure is distributed.

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Rsk Environment Limited

Corporate parent · board control

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Ares Management Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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HEADLAND ARCHAEOLOGY (UK) LIMITED

This company · SC342945

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Rsk Environment Limited Corporate entity	—	75–100%	board control75-100% voting · board control	26/10/2023
Ares Management Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	26/10/2023

2 historic (ceased) PSCs

Ares Management Limitedceased 26/10/2023· 75-100% shares
Headland Group Limitedceased 26/10/2023· 75-100% voting · board control

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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9 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2008-05-15

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74909 — Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.

Registered office

65 Sussex Street

Glasgow

G41 1DX

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-07-03

Last: 2025-06-19