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01.11.2014

Congratulations to our Stage-2 Classics student Josh Corcoran.

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CIAS DIRECTOR

Dr Andrea Dolfini
Lecturer in Later Prehistory
E: andrea.dolfini@ncl.ac.uk
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Armstrong Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU - UK

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.