What do we do at Illustrate Archaeology?
Our main line of work is in archaeological illustration. We have been illustrating for over seven years and have had numerous pieces published in journals, periodicals, books and on-line.

How much do we cost?
We are reasonably-priced at £10 per hour. We will work through an initial draft of your illustration and 'upload' it to a contents page on this website for you to view. You can then e-mail any comments and corrections. When you are happy with your archaeological illustrations, we will burn them to CD and post you a series of A4 hard copies.

The images will be accessible on our webpage as .pdf files. This means that they can be accessed on Adobe Acrobat which can be downloaded for free from the Adobe webpage.

Why pay for 'digital' illustrations over traditional 'inking-up'?
Archaeological illustrations that are drawn on a computer take the same, if not less, amount of time than those that are traditionally 'inked-up' - so the costs, essentially are the same. The benefits of a digital image however are that they can be re-formated any number of times in any number of ways. For example, fonts, colours, line thicknesses and scale can all be changed. This can mean that an illustration commissioned for one publication can be tweaked or altered and used for another.

What else do we do?
Along with our archaeological illustration work we also do excavation work. Alex Langlands has worked for over seven years in field archaeology for a number of commercial units and has trained undergraduates and members of the public in basic and advanced field techniques.

Furthermore, we offer an education service for groups of all backgrounds. If you are a school (secondary or primary) and are looking to do a local history project then we can provide that vital link between the classroom and the historic environment. You may be part of a local history society and are looking for guest lecturers - Alex Langlands, who recently participated in BBC TWO's 'Tales from the Green Valley', is more than happy to come in and talk to a group about his experiences in the series or about his research work in the fields of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, British Landscape History or the Archaeology and History of Thatching.