Wessex Archaeology’s Specialist Services Team offers you immediate access to leading archaeological experts.
When Specialist Services are required
We provide advice, expertise and support at the planning stage, in the field, and in the laboratory. We ensure timely, cost-effective and skilled treatment of physical objects, including scientific dating, x-ray and conservation.
We can identify and analyse: human, faunal (animal) and environmental remains; lithics (stone tools); ceramics and ceramic building materials; metalwork, stone and glass.
The Specialist Services Team
Our highly qualified staff are one of the largest dedicated teams in the UK, backed by a network of independent specialists in more rarely encountered materials and laboratory analyses.
Team
Local and national policy advice
Project design
Recovery strategies
Artefact selection and retention policy
Artefact stabilisation
Artefact recording
Artefact assessment
Burial archaeology
Faunal remains
Environmental sampling strategies
Environmental sample processing and assessment
Analysis of plant remains
Analysis of prehistoric lithics
Analysis of ceramics (from prehistoric to modern)
Bayesian analysis of scientific dates
X-ray
Get in touch
Contact Andrea Burgess, System Implementation Director