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Abstracts of papers presented at the Research in Progress meeting of the Historical Metallurgy Society since 2024.

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Date Title Author
2024 Acies Ferri: Construction and provenance of Merovingian seaxes from 5th-8th century Alsace Tobias Heal, Alexandre Disser, Thomas Fischbach
2024 An experimental Investigation of Medieval Helmet Forging Techniques Joshua Koss, Patrick Thaden
2024 Beyond the miniature: An exploration of the artistic and religious dimensions of Tamil Nadu’s bronze scupltures Rithik Pramod
2024 Characterising the corrosion of the SS Great Britain using handheld XRF Katherine Rothwell, Andrew R. C. Grigg, Nicola Grahamslaw, James M. Byrne
2024 Characteristics of malleable irons by the fining techniques used in their manufacture Richard Williams
2024 Comparative optical, chemical, and mechanical characterisation of 18th century and modern re-rolled wrought irons Kutsi Akcicek, Sinan Acikgoz, Heather Viles
2024 Degradation of tin foils on historic Leyden jars Meghan Parker, Ineke Joosten, Rosalijn van IJken
2024 Historical Metallurgy Society Projects: Glossary of Terms and Atlas of Microstructures Peter Northover, Vanessa Cheel
2024 Improving our knowledge of the circulation of copper and its alloys: the case of the French Pyrenees at the end of the Middle Ages Léa Chanal, Guillaume Sarah, Florian Téreygeol
2024 Marginalization and perception: The role of disabled in archaeometallurgical societies of Southern highlands, Tanzania. Lilo Nilima
2024 New insights in early bloom processing Paul Rondelez, Rowan Taylor
2024 Race and civilisation in John Percy’s Metallurgy (1864) Anaïs Walsdorf
2024 Recent and ongoing developments of a database related to iron metallurgy Alexandre Disser
2024 Reconstructing letterpress technology through the Baskerville punches: new scientific data to reverse-engineer a practically lost craft Julia Montes-Landa, Mark Box, Caroline Archer-Parré, Ann-Marie Carey, Maciej Pawlikowski, Marcos Martinón-Torres
2024 Studying the different mineralizations of Laurion through a combined geological and archaeological approach Frank Hulek, Yannis Bassiakos, Eleni Filippaki
2024 Surface enrichment and deterioration patterns of two silver punch-marked coins from Tekttha, Naogaon, Bangladesh: An X-ray diffraction analysis Sabikun Naher, Md. Ashraful Alam
2024 The archaeometallurgy of iron: An introduction for students of archaeology Donald B. Wagner
2024 The first insight into the origins of Ammonite iron through Os isotope analyses of iron arrowheads from the Late Iron Age cemetery of Tell El Mazar, Jordan Ivan Stepanov, Khaled Al-Bashaireh, Michael Brauns
2025 British Gunfounding after the Weald Peter King
2025 Bồng Miêu Gold Mine: Technological evolution and colonial adaptation in Southeast Asia Sébastien Clouet
2025 Exploring Ancient Indian Panchadhatu and Ashtadhatu-Making Traditions as Prototypes of Modern High Entropy Alloys Nayanathara S, Dr. Suhash Ranjan Dey
2025 First insights into the origin of iron in eastern Cilicia during the Iron Age, using osmium isotope and trace element analysis Ivan Stepanov, Hüseyin Öztürk, Michael Brauns, Ernst Pernicka, Nurullah Hanilçi, Ümit Güder
2025 Investigating Failure Mechanisms in Archaeological and Modern Wrought Irons Kutsi Akcicek, Jiaxu Zuo, Heather Viles, Sinan Acikgoz
2025 Iranian Copper Alloys Archaeometallurgy, Corrosion, and Cultural Heritage Management Omid Oudbashi, Russell Wanhill
2025 Metal production in the 2nd millennium BC Eurasian Steppe: An update of research Ilaria Calgaro
2025 Metallographic and Neutron Analysis of EBA metalworking traditions John Strachan
2025 Metallurgy and Firepower: A Technological Overvie of Iron Cannonry in Medieval Bengal Sabikun Naher, Pranab K. Chattopadhyay, Jesmin Nahar Jhumur
2025 On the constructional detail of the type 2 mediaeval anchor from Ladby, Denmark Rowan Taylor
2025 Paths of Production: Spatial and Experimental Investigations of Native Copper Working In North America’s Native Copper Industry Ryan Edward Peterson
2025 Potential of Technical Ceramics for Studying the Iron Metallurgical Chaîne Opératoire: Selected Medieval Case Studies from Southern Czech Republic Michael Lebsak, Michal Hlavica, Roman Mikulec
2025 The Archaeology of Ironworking Landscape: The Case Study of Brdy Mountains, the Czech Republic Tomáš Kroupa
2025 The Spatial Distribution of Iron slag Evidence Sites in Northern Ethiopia (Tigray) Hailay Atsbha
2025 The preservation and conservation of Phopo hill, an archaeometallurgical site in Rumphi, Malawi Silvester PM Baba, Mwayi Woyamba Lusaka
2025 Weapons, Rituals, and the Making of a Warrior Society? A Use-Wear Assessment of Swords and Associated Artefacts with Weapon Function and Social Identity of Sinauli Skand Manjul, Arvin Manjul, Sanjay Kr Manjul
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