HMS Spring Meeting: Early Scottish Metallurgy, 20th March 2010 (10am-5pm)

Venue
The spring day meeting of the Historical Metallurgy Society will be held at the National Museum of Scotland, Chamber Street, Edinburgh.

Organiser
The Day Meeting is being organised by Fraser Hunter.
Email: Fraser Hunter.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for the presentation of recent studies on early metallurgical research in Scotland.

Speakers and Topics (draft)

John Pickin
South Scottish mines / Tonderghie

Tim Mighall
Heavy metal pollution signatures

Tam Ward
Lanarkshire lead smelting

Ross Murray
Culduthel – the site

David Dungworth
Culduthel – the slag and iron

Gavin McGregor / Dave Seddon Mid Ross Iron Age furnaces

Trevor Cowie
Late Bronze Age moulds

Daniel Sahlén
Metalworking ceramics

Jim Tate / Lore Troalen / Martin Goldberg / Alice Blackwell
Recent National Museum of Scotland work on Roman and Early Historic silver (or possibly something on Mine Howe)

Gerry McDonnell
Mine Howe and Scatness

Andrew Heald
Moulds and crucibles (possibly Mine Howe or Tarbat)

Effie Photos-Jones
tbc

Fraser Hunter
Birnie or Traprain?