Post-excavation and specialist services
Comprehensive specialist research and analysis - from artefacts to reconstructions, processing to publication.
ASE offers a full post-excavation service, from specialised artefact recovery, processing, analysis and conservation right through to publication and archiving. Our highly experienced team makes the post-excavation journey seamless, delivering professional, high-impact products and research.
Artefact and ecofact specialisms
Our large team of artefact specialists has been established over many years. We analyse and report on most categories of finds and environmental remains in-house. We deliver all types of report such as watching briefs, evaluations and assessments and publications.
- Worked lithics
- Registered finds
- Prehistoric and Roman pottery
- Fired clay
- Ceramic building material
- Clay tobacco pipe
- Glass
- Metalwork
- Coins
- X-Ray
- Preventative and interventive/remedial conservation
- Air abrasion and investigative cleaning
- Archaeobotany (macro plant remains)
- Charcoal
- Waterlogged wood
- Marine shell
- Ostracods and foraminifera
- Human bone
- Animal bone (zooarchaeology), with expertise in mammal, bird and fish bones
- Crime scene work
- Bone identification and dating
- Search and location
- Reporting and Expert Witness
We also work with experienced external specialists to provide expertise on
- Geological material
- Worked stone
- Post-Roman pottery
- Slag
Illustration and graphics
Our graphics department supports all ASE’s services, producing site plans, illustrations, interpretative material, reconstruction drawings and designing ASE’s long running and successful SpoilHeap Monograph series.
- Site plans and stratigraphic illustrations
- Artefact photography, photogrammetry and illustration
- Reconstruction drawings
- Posters, leaflets and flyers for outreach
- Interpretation boards
Contact us
With offices conveniently located in Sussex, Essex, and London, we’re perfectly placed to support clients and communities across a broad area of the UK. Get in touch using the contact details below.
