Dr Peter Frederick Claughton

Date of birth		15th March 1946

Employment, qualifications and appointments

2017-present	Associate (mining heritage and archaeology) - Chris Morgan Associates Ltd.
2015-present	Post-graduate supervisor - University of Wales, Trinity St Davids
2010-present	Consultant, ArcHeritage - Hard Rock Aggregates and Subterranean Archaeology: an assessment
2009-present	Project Manager, National Association of Mining History Organisations (NAMHO) - Research Framework for the Archaeology of the Extractive Industries
2009-present	Co-ordinator - Pembrokeshire Industrial Heritage Group (originally PLANED Industrial Past workshops)
2006-2008	Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter – Bere Ferrers Project - Industry and the Making of a Rural Landscape: silver mining in medieval Devon
2003-present	Hon. University Fellow, College of Humanities, University of Exeter
1994-2003	Part-time post-graduate student; PhD in Economic and Social History, University of Exeter
1986-present	Self employed engineer and retailer of vehicle components
1963-1986	Service in Royal Air Force; electronics technician, air communications

External recognition

•	Elected as a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (2014)
•	Chairman, Bordley Township Project - a community archaeology group working in the Yorkshire Dales - (2010-2018)
•	Conservation Officer, National Association of Mining History Organisations (2007-present)
·	Management committee member, mining interest group of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) (2002-present)
·	UK working group member, COST A27 Action, Understanding pre-industrial structures in rural and mining landscapes (LANDMARKS) (2004-2009)
·	Chairman, National Association of Mining History Organisations (2004-2007)
·	Council member, Historical Metallurgy Society (1999-2002)

Selected publications

Edited volumes

Claughton, P. and Mills, C. Mining Legacies: history, archaeology and environmental impact, (Peak District Mines Historical Society, Mining History 17.3 Summer 2015)

Claughton, P. and Mills, C. Mining Perspectives: The Proceedings of the Eighth International Mining History Congress 2009 (Truro: Cornwall Council, 2011)

Claughton, P. Lead and Silver: Britain, France and Beyond, Historical Metallurgy 42 (2010) 2

Claughton, P. Water Power in Mining: papers presented at the National Association of Mining History Organisations' conference at Aberystwyth, 5-8 July 2002, (Matlock Bath: PDMHS, 2004).

Chapters in books

Claughton, P. Chapter 7, Iron and Steel, in The British Home Front, ed. Sir Hew Strachan, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Claughton, P. Iron and Ironstone, Clay, Gold, Minor Metals and Minerals, Salt and other Evaporite Minerals, in The Archaeology of Mining and Quarrying in England: A Research Framework, ed. P. Newman (Matlock Bath: NAMHO, 2016)

Claughton, P. Mineral Resources, in A Social History of England, 900-1200, eds J. Crick and E. van Houts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Claughton, P.  Coal, Ore and Metals: Coastal Mining Landscapes of South-West Britain, in Landmarks: Profiling Europe’s Historic Landscapes, eds Bartels, Ruiz del Árbol, van Londen and Orejas, (Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, 2008)

Claughton, P.  Metals and Industrial Minerals, in Images of Change: an archaeology of England’s contemporary landscape, ed. Sefryn Penrose, (Swindon: English Heritage, 2007).

Papers in journals and conference proceedings

Claughton, P. 'Hidden from View: stone from the medieval church at Morfil, north Pebrokeshire', Fforwm Cerrg Cymru / Welsh Stone Forum Newsletter 16, (March 2019), 12-13.
Claughton, P. 'View from the other side of the Channel: England’s mining response to the silver crisis in the 15th century', in N. Minvielle Larousse, M-Ch. Bailly-Maître & G. Bianchi (eds) Les métaux précieux en Méditerranée médiévale, Collection BIAMA, 27 (coédition du Centre Camille Jullian et des Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2019), 127-136.
Claughton, P. 'Mining in the mountains: the development of aerial ropeways on the iron mines around the Canigou massif (Pyrénées-Orientales, France)', Proceedings of the 10th International Mining History Congress, Linares (Spain), September 2016 (Publicaciones de la Universidad de Jaén, 2018) [PDF document} URL https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cU2RMaDxrSk0cLirg2x_2mC6gqyn1QJ2/view [accessed 30 January 2018], pp. 515-526
Claughton, P. 'The Bordley Township Project: Aspects of Human Impact on a Landscape in Craven', The Archaeological Forum Journal: CBA Yorkshire 1 (2012), 27–32 

Claughton, P. ‘Silver and Zinc: Cardiganshire, Brittany, and Dillwyn & Co. of Swansea’, Welsh Mines and Mining 2 (2012), 45-50

Claughton, P. ‘Les mines d’argent du roi anglais et le paysage historique de Devon : le Projet Bere Ferrers’, ArcheoSciences, revue d’archéométrie, 34 (2010), 299-306

Claughton, P. ‘Silver and the demand for lead: assessing production levels in late medieval England and Wales’, in P. Hubry (ed.) Stribrna Jihlava 2007 (Jihlava: Archaia Brno, 2008)

Claughton, P. ‘Mining law in England and Wales: understanding boundaries in the landscape,’ in Sfruttamento, tutela e valorizzazione del territorio. Dal diritto romano alla regolamentazione europea e internazionale, ed. F. Reduzzi, (Napoli: Ed. Jovene, 2007)

Claughton, P.  "New techniques, new sources: The British steel industry and its ore supply, 1850-1950", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Paleosiderurgy, (Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain, 2005) pp. 277-90

Claughton, P.  "Production and economic impact: Northern Pennine (English) silver in the 12th century", Proceedings of the 6th International Mining History Congress, (Akabira, Japan, 2003), pp. 146-49. 

Claughton, P.  "English Mining Entrepreneurs in the Late Medieval Period", in Proceedings of the 5th International Mining History Congress, Milos, Greece, September 2000, (Milos Conference Center - George Eliopoulos, 2001), pp. 375-82.

Joint publications and reports

Claughton, P. and Anguilano, L. "Silver in Queensland: The Problem of Ore Processing", in P. Claughton & C. Mills (eds), Mining Legacies, Mining History 19.3 (Summer 2015), 31-42

Claughton, P. and Rondelez, P. "Early Silver Mining in Western Europe: an Irish Perspective", The Journal of the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland 13 (December 2013), 1-8

Rippon, S, Claughton, P. and Smart, C. Mining in a Medieval Landscape: the Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar Valley (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009)

Smart, C. and Claughton, P. ‘The Mining Community and the Landscape: the impact of silver mining on the historic landscape in south Devon’, in C. Bartels and C. Küpper-Eichas (eds), Cultural Heritage and Landscapes in Europe / Landscaften: Kulturelles Erbe in Europa, (Bochum: Deutsches Berbau-Museum, 2008), pp. 521-43.

Paynter, S., Dunkerley, T. and Claughton P.  Lead Smelting Waste from the 2001-2002 Excavations at Combe Martin, Devon, English Heritage, Centre for Archaeology, Report 79/2003.

Book reviews

The Origins of an Industrial Region, Robert Morris and the First Swansea Copper Works, c.1727–1730, ed. L. Miskell, in Archives (April 2012), 76-78