Registration is still open – email hlcevent@liverpool.ac.uk!
Attendance will be a mixture of online and in-person. Zoom details for online attendees will be circulated shortly. The venue for those wishing to attend in-person is: The University of Liverpool, Arts Faculty Library, Abercromby Square, Liverpool.
Conference programme:
| Time | Name | Title |
| Tuesday 19th April | ||
| 11:30 REGISTRATION | ||
| 12:00-13:00 LUNCH | ||
| 13:00-13:30 | Paul Craddock | Metals and Coins |
| 13:30-14:00 | Maria Guerra | On the two sides of the coins: Coin analyses to understand jewellery. |
| 14:00-14:30 | Thomas Faucher and Alexandre Bodet | The Frapper Monnaie project: Understanding die productivity in Greek and Roman world. |
| 14:30-15:00 | Peter Northover | Metallurgy and the Mechanisation of Minting |
| 15:00-15:30 | Patricia Carrizo | Archaeometallurgical and manufacturing procedures: studies of two copper coins dates 1851 and 1853 (OL) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Nicola George | Disguising Debasement: Roman Surface Silvering Technologies in the Third-Century AD. |
| 16:00-16:30 | George Green | Electron probe analysis of sectioned gold coins from antiquity: implications for cultural heritage research. |
| 16:30-17:00 | Jake Morley-Stone | Late Iron Age Coin Pellet Production in Hertfordshire, Britain. |
| Wednesday 20th April | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Naomi Rubinstein | When identity sits on the surface: using pXRF to identify Constantinian copies in Romano-British hoards [AD 330-341] |
| 10:30-11:00 | Francis Alberade | New geochemical tools for silver provenance and fluxes |
| 11:00-11:30 | Tom Elliot | A critical review of LA-ICP-MS and the analysis of ancient coins |
| 11:30-12:00 | Camille Bossavit | Silver coinage production policies of Central Eastern Gaul (IInd-Ist centuries B.C.E.) : an analytical overview. (OL) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Leisel Gentelli, Gil Davis, Haim Gitler, Janne-Blichert-Toft and Francis Alberade. | The source of 5th century BCE ‘imitation’ owls in the Southern Levant. (OL) |
| 12:30-13:00 | Fleur Kemmers and Sabine Klein | Standardised or laissez-faire? Bullion characterization and silver fineness of Greek federal coinages (5th-1st centuries BCE) |
| 13:00-14:00 LUNCH | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | Stephen Merkel, Angela Celauro and Jane Kershaw | Silver, sulfur and salt: Experiments in Early Islamic silver extractive metallurgy |
| 14:30-15:00 | Tom Birch, Alex Metcalf and Rasmus Andreasen | Silver of the Abbasids: an investigation into the composition and provenance of North African Islamic dirhams. |
| 15:00-15:30 | Arnaud Suspene, Maryse Blet- Lemarquand and Jeremy Artru. | Archaeometrical analyses of Roman silver coins of the Augustan Age through LA-ICP-MS for the program MAN. |
| 15:30-16:00 | David Wigg, Sabine Klein and Tim Greifelt | The sources of the metal of Roman denarii – A multi-isotope and elemental analysis approach |
| 16:00-16:30 | Adrian Hillier | Non-destructively probing the core composition of coinages of the Mediterranean by using muonic X-ray |
| 16:30-17:00 | Matthew Ponting and Kevin Butcher | RACOM and Summing-up |
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