Investigation of the low-lying sand covered plain at the northern end of the small island of Herm, close to Guernsey in the Channel Islands. An AHRC-funded project 2008-2011 with support of Guernsey Museums and Herm Island management uncovered widespread evidence of artefact spreads probably related to prehistoric manuring, coupled with ard-marks at several locations. At one site, a Middle Neolithic settlement with probable sill-beams of house structures and associated Cerny material (mid-5th millennium BC) was uncovered. Extensive coring and micromorphology conducted by Professor Charles French (Cambridge) coupled with OSL dating by Professor Ian Bailiff (Durham) revealed the changing morphology and activity patterns from the beginning of the Neolithic to recent times. Fieldwork resumed in 2024.

Excavations conducted in conjunction with Dr Luc Laporte and Dr Roger Joussaume 1995-2004 explored the structure and structural history of a 100m-long long mound in west-central France. A complex internal sequence was revealed with AMS dates revealing that substantial structural modifications and additions occurred within a relatively short timescale of around two centuries in the second half of the 5th millennium BC. Three burial chambers incorporating megalithic slabs and dry-stone construction were discovered, one of them (Chambre III) undisturbed since the last funerary deposit was placed there c. 4200 BC. Excavations directed by Luc Laporte have continued since 2005. Analysis of stable isotopes and DNA of the human remains are currently in progress.

The megalithic cemetery of Bougon in west-central France was first excavated in the 1840s. Further, more extensive excavations conducted by Jean-Pierre Mohen were undertaken in 1972-1986 and published fifteen years later (Les Tumulus de Bougon. Complexe mégalithique du Ve au IIIe millénaire, J.-P. Mohen & C. Scarre, 2002). Stable isotope and DNA analysis of human remains recovered in the 1970s/1980s excavations is currently in progress, along with new AMS dates to resolve chronological questions raised by the initial radiocarbon dates that became available in the 1970s and 1990s.