Historical Metallurgy Society - Urban Archaeometallurgy

Saturday February 21th

HMS Workshop on Urban Archaeometallurgy
at the UCL Institute of Archaeology

Dear all,
Please find below the programme for the forthcoming HMS Workshop on Urban Archaeometallurgy, which will take place at the UCL Institute of Archaeology next Saturday 21st February.

For further information, directions, etc, you can follow this link: http://hist-met.org/2009workshop.html (but note that the provisional timetable there still needs to be updated!).

Attendance is free, and we will make sure that there is plenty of coffee and time for discussion between specialists and nonspecialists. I will be grateful, however, if you send me an email in advance to let me know that you are planning to attend, so that we can estimate numbers (m.martinon-torres@ucl.ac.uk).

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible,
Marcos

9.50

Welcome and introduction

10.00

Iron specialisation in early medieval urban settlements (Eleanor Blakelock)

10.25

Metalworking in Lincoln: the evidence from Flaxengate and other sites in the lower city (Justine Bayley)

10.50

Some medieval and later metalworking evidence from London (Geoff Egan)

11.15

Coffee

11.35

The manufacture and meaning of early medieval pewter at the Museum of London collection (Christopher Lagen)

12.00

Assaying? Refining? Recycling? An early modern laboratory in Austria (Marcos Martinón-Torres, Aude Mongiatti, Karl Friedl and Sigrid von Osten)

12.25

New evidence for high-tin bronze in Ancient Bengal, India (Pranab Chattopadhyay)

12.50

Lunch break

14.30

Within, close or afar: associating metallurgical activities and settlements in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades (Myrto Georgakopoulou)

14.55

Three Western Zhou Bronze foundry sites in in the Zhouyuan Area, Shaanxi Province, China (Wenli Zhou)

15.20

 A Roman copper alloy workshop in Beirut, Lebanon  (Ziad el Murr and Michel Pernot)

15.55

Coffee

16.10

Functional analysis of a pyrotechnological installation from the Roman period at Tel-Dor, Israel: Casting pit for bronze objects (Adi Eliyahu Behar, Lior Regev, Sana Shilstein, Yiftah Shalev, John Berg, Ilan Sharon and Steve Weiner)

16.35

 From Roman times to the 19th century: XRF analysis of coins from rescue excavations at Cristo de la Luz, Toledo, Spain (Ignacio Montero and Arturo Ruiz-Taboada)

17.00

Close and drinks