commercial services
CIAS offers expert commercial consultancy for artefact identification and analysis at competitive day-rates. Our work is undertaken in compliance of industry standards as required by English Heritage and the Institute for Archaeologists. Our commercial services are as follows:
- Identification and assessment of Prehistoric, Romano-British and Medieval small finds including lithics, metalwork, glass, coins and bone/antler artefacts
- Specialist post-excavation analysis including spot-dating, assessing and publishing a wide range of small finds
- Chemical characterisation of archaeological artefacts, raw materials and industrial residues by portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF)
- Use-wear analysis of copper-alloy tools and weapons
- Archaeological illustration of small finds
- GIS/database solutions and customised cartographic outputs.
A full list of the specialist services available is available here.