We are pleased to confirm the programme for the Historical Metallurgy Society's Research in Progress Meeting, 2010.
2010 HMS Research in Progress Programme, UCL, London
9.00 – 9.15 Registration
9.15 – 9.30 Opening ceremony, welcome notes from organisers
Session 1 chairperson: Justine Bayley
9.30 – 9.50 S. Timberlake, Teaching Experimental Archaeometallurgy
9.50 – 10.10 S. Cater, An investigation of solid state welding techniques, ancient and modern, for the creation of high quality cutting edges
10.10 – 10.30 R. Fillery-Travis, pXRF of a Romano-British parade helmet
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/tea break
Session 2 chairperson: Duncan Hook
11.00 – 11.20 M. Radivojević, One mineral two ideas: the beginnings of metallurgy in the Balkans
11.20 – 11.40 A. Dolfini, The function of Chalcolithic metalwork in Italy: insights from use-wear analysis
11.40 – 12.00 L. Boscher, Speiss and arsenical copper production in Early Bronze Age Iran
12.00 – 12.20 S. Fortuna, Phoenician Metallurgy in the Southern Part of the Iberian Peninsula
12.20 – 13.20 Lunch
Sesion 3 chairperson: Marcos Martinón-Torres
13.20 – 13.40 T. Young, Middle Iron Age copper smelting from Four Crosses, near Llanymynech, Powys
13.40 – 14.00 J. Bayley, Metalworking at Deer Park Farms, Glenarm, Co Antrim
14.00 – 14.20 D. A. Scott, Metallographic Studies: The Microstructure and Corrosion of Metallic Objects
14.20 – 15.00 Coffee/tea break
Session 4 chairperson: David A. Scott
15.00 -15.20 F. McIntosh, The Wirral Brooch Project
15.20- 15.40 E. Blakelock, Iron technology in Anglo-Saxon England, a glimpse at Early Medieval society through the analysis of iron knives
15.40- 16.00 D. Hook, Recent research on metallic artefacts: Bronze Age axes, Iron Age torcs and Anglo Saxon gold coins
16.00- 17.00 Concluding remarks
17.00 Reception (Staff Common Room)
