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This category contains 14 sites:

• Air Photo Services - Specialise in aerial photographic interpretation, rectified mapping from aerial photographs, CAD and GIS solutions and aerial photography. Services, cases studies, clients, staff.
• Alan Vince Archaeological Consultancy - This pottery specialist offers a full range of services including chemical analysis. Lists of clients and publications; unpublished reports; teaching resources.
• Alison Deegan, Air Photo Interpreter - Provides air photo interpretation, mapping and analysis to archaeologists, curators and developers. Here she outlines the technique and its uses.
• Archaeological Diving Unit - Based in the Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies at the University of St Andrews. Advises the Government on historic wrecks. Publishes the Guide to Historic Wreck Sites on-line.
• ArchaeoPhysica - Provides a range of reconnaissance services for archaeology, including geophysical and topographical survey, test-pitting and augering. Based in Shropshire.
• Archaeotrace - Consultancy offering scientific support for archaeology. Archaeometallurgy, isotope biogeochemistry, lead isotope analysis, osteoarchaeology, trace element analysis. Projects, staff, publications.
• Brick and Tile Services - For the recording, analysis and researching of ceramic building materials from archaeological excavations. Staff, services. Based in York.
• Connect Archaeology - Contract archaeological company specialising in coastal and underwater archaeology in Scotland and Northern Britain. Company philosophy, services, staff, news.
• GeoArch - Consultancy in the analysis and interpretation of ancient metallurgical residues (slags), based in Cardiff. Project to reconstruct a Roman bloomery furnace.
• GSB Prospection - Offers gradiometer, resistivity and other geophysical survey techniques for archaeological and shallow prospection. Appears regularly on Channel 4's Time Team. Staff, services, techniques, projects.
• Oxford Archaeotechnics - Company specializing in archaeological prospection and non-destructive archaeological investigation. Techniques and illustrated case studies.
• Palaeoecology Research Services - Contract arm of the Environmental Archaeology Unit, Department of Biology, University of York. Profile, staff, services.
• Quaternary TL Surveys - A commercial laboratory providing thermoluminescence (TL) date measurement services. Describes its applications in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology and in Pleistocene and Holocene geology.
• Stratascan - Offers geophysical and specialist survey services, engineering and environmental investigations.