Metalworking Residue Specialist

In 1992, I obtained my Master’s Degree in Archaeology and History at Ghent University with a thesis on prehistoric and Roman ironworking in Belgium. More recently, I completed PhD research into late medieval ironworking in Ireland at University College Cork in 2014.​ 
This consisted of bringing together the historical and archaeological evidence for both smelting and smithing in Ireland between 1200 and 1600. These findings were put into a wider European context.
​The PhD can be downloaded here.
I am a director of the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland and chairman of the Historical Metallurgy Society.