Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
After graduating with a BSc degree in Mining Geology from Imperial College London he had a thirty-five year career with Pilkington NSG, the international glass company, at their European Research Centre. He was chief geologist and head of the Raw Materials and Glass Compositions Department, responsible for sourcing raw materials and developing glass compositions for flat galss manufacture in over 20 countries. In 2012 he took early retirement and undertook a PhD in archaeology on the Bronze Age copper mine at the Great Orme in Wales that used his skills in geochemistry and ore geology to solve a long standing problem of tracing where all the metal went by using chemical and isotopic 'fingerprinting'. This provided strong evidence that Great Orme metal reaching from Brittany to the Baltic. Current research interests are on Bronze Age tin and gold.
Experience
–present
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
1977–2012
Head of Raw Materials and Glass Compositions Research and Development Department, Pilkington NSG
Education
2018
University of Liverpool, PhD Archaeology
1976
Imperial College, University of London, BSc (Hons) First class
Publications
2019
Boom and Bust in Bronze Age Britian; major copper production from the Great Orme mine and European trade, c.11600-1400 BC, Antiquity
2018
Moving metals III: Possible origins for copper in Bronze Age Denmark based on lead isotopes and geochemistry, Journal of Archaeological Science
2017
The Great Orme Bronze Age copper mine: Linking ores to metals by developing a geochemically and isotopically defined mine-based methodology, Bibliotheca Prehistorica Hispana. Vol. XXXIII Madrid p29-47
2013
Linking Bronze Age copper smelting slags from Pentrwyn on the Great Orme to ore and metal, Historical Metallurgy 47(1) 93-110