Dr Lorna Anguilano, PhD, MSc, MSc, FGS, AIM

Lorna Anguilano is a material scientist and archaeometallurgist. She is currently developing the X-ray diffraction facility at ETC, providing consultancy in material characterisation and failure’s diagnosis as well as actively generating and developing researches in archaeometry. Her research involves reconstruction of ferrous and non-ferrous metal production from different areas and periods, and makes use of chemical, metallographic and mineralogical techniques such as XRF, OM, SEM-EDS and XRD.

Joining ETCbrunel in 2008 Lorna’s first focussed in the establishment of the XRD facility and material characterisation’s consultancy. Later on Lorna started working parallel on her archaeometric research starting a series of projects of early iron production in Ireland with Connaught Archaeology.

At the moment she is developing projects on Medieval non-ferrous production in Central and South of Italy and in mining industrial archaeology in Queensland and South Wales (Australia).

Lorna also participates to modern material characterisation within research team, her contribution to these researches includes in situ phase transition shape memory alloys characterisation and DLC coating crystalline characterisation.

Selected Publications

Anguilano, L. La Salvia, V. Serlorenzi, M. SILVERING TECHNIQUES IN THE ADRIAN ATHENAEUM Surface Engineering,Special Issue, in press.

Anguilano, L. La Salvia, V. Serlorenzi, M. Antonelli, S. Tornese, M.  Iacone, A. and Prosperi, S. The metallurgical workshop of Piazza Madonna di Loreto (Rome). International Symposium of Archaeometry 2012 Proceedings, in press.

Anguilano, L. Timberlake, S. Rehren, Th. Excavation, slag analysis and experimental reconstruction of an Early Medieval lead smelting bole from Banc Tynddol, Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion (Wales UK) Historical Metallurgy Society Journal, volume 44, part 2, 2010

Anguilano, L. Chemical and Mineralogical analysis of slags from Lowpark, Appendix VIIIb IN: Of Troughs and Tuyeres. The archaeology of the N5 Charlestown Bypass. NRA scheme monographs 6 – 2010. Eds. Gillespie and Kerrigan

Wallace, A. Anguilano, L.Iron smelting and smithing: new evidence emerging on Irish Road Schemes IN: Creative Minds: production, manufacturing and invention in ancient Ireland. 2010 Eds. M. Stanley, E. Danher and J. Eogan.