Full service list
This is an indicative list of our services. Please contact us with your specific requirements if the technique you require is not listed.
Geoarchaeology and Sedimentology
- Borehole surveys using manual or mechanical methods
- Geoarchaeological monitoring and site visits
- On-site environmental sampling including column/monolith, bulk and micromorphology/Kubiena sampling
- Sediment descriptions (field and laboratory-based)
- Organic matter determinations
- Humification analysis
- pH determinations
- Particle size analysis
- Phosphate analysis
- Calcium carbonate analysis
- Magnetic susceptibility analysis
- Preparation and analysis of micromorphology slides
- Preparation and analysis of petrographic slides
- GIS analysis
- Deposit modelling
Archaeobotany and Zooarchaeology
- Flotation
- Wet sieving
- Assessment of flots and sorting residues
- Charcoal assessment and analysis
- Charred plant remains assessment and analysis
- Diatom assessment and analysis
- Foraminifera and Ostracoda assessment and analysis
- Fungal spore assessment and analysis
- Insect assessment and analysis
- Mollusca assessment and analysis
- Parasites assessment and analysis
- Phytolith assessment and analysis
- Pollen assessment and analysis
- Small faunal remains assessment and analysis
- Testate amoebae assessment and analysis
- Waterlogged plant remains assessment and analysis
- Waterlogged wood assessment and analysis
Geochemistry
- XRD bulk mineralogy (X-Ray Diffraction)
- XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence)
- ICP-OES (inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry)
- ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry)
- GC (Gas Chromatography)
- HPLC (High-performance liquid chromatography)
- GC/MS (Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry)
- GC-C-IRMS (Gas Chromatography - Combustion-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry)
- Inorganic carbon analysis
- Total organic carbon analysis
- Isotopic analysis (210Pb, Pb isotopes, U-series)
- Electron microscopy (SEM, TEM)
- X-ray microanalysis (EDX, WDX)
- Visible light and IR microscopy
- C/N isotopes and O/H isotopes
Geochronology
- Radiocarbon dating (external)
- Tephrochronology
- Dendrochronology
- 210Pb dating
- U-series dating
- Optically stimulated Luminescence (OSL) laboratories
- Thermo luminescence (T-L) dating laboratories
- Oxcal, Bacon chronological modelling