Herbert Henery Coghlan

Herbert Henery Coghlan AMIME FSA
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Born	1896
Died	1981
Residence	Boxford, Newbury, Berks [1949]
Occupation	museum work engineer archaeologist
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow elected_AI 1938.11.22 1948 clubs Newbury and District Field Club societies Society of Antiquaries Prehistoric Society Institute of Mining Engineers

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Office Notes

RAI Council 1944-45 Member
RAI Council 1945-46 Member
RAI Council 1946-47 Member
RAI Council 1948-49 Member
RAI Council 1949-50 Member
RAI Council 1950-51 Member
RAI Council 1961-62 Member
RAI Council 1962-63 Member
RAI Council 1963-64 Member

House Notes

1938.10.25 nominated
census gives birthday 4 Sept. 1895, occupation: consulting engineer and archaeologist

Notes From Elsewhere

Herbert Henery [sic] Coghlan was born in 1896 and died in 1981. He was born into a landowning family near Dublin, Ireland. He started a course in engineering at Trinity College, Dublin but left, before completion, to join the Dublin railway workshops. In the 1920s he joined the Burmese railways. He married in 1923 and returned to live in the UK in 1926. From the 1930s he worked for a firm of consulting engineers on a contract for the Indian State Railways and spent much time in Germany.

In the UK Coghlan lived in Boxford, near Newbury in Berkshire. His next-door neighbour was Harold Peake,[1] who developed his interest in archaeology and metallurgy. From the late 1930s Coghlan published a series of articles on archeao-metallurgy in journals such as Man and Antiquity.

In 1946 Coghlan took over the Honorary Curatorship of the Borough Museum at Newbury, now known as the West Berkshire Museum, Newbury. He spent much time reorganizing the displays there. He was assisted in this job by his wife Margaret, who did much of the research necessary for the labelling of the artefacts on display.

Whilst working at Newbury, Coghlan undertook research into the metal artefacts at the Pitt Rivers Museum with Dennis Britton and Ivor Michael Allen. [2]

Publications

External Publications

Notes On Prehistoric And Early Iron In The Old World, Pitt Rivers Museum Occ Papers On Technology 8,
1 Jan 1956
by H H Coghlan

Some Fresh Aspects of the Prehistoric Metalluargy of Copper.
1942
by H Coghlan

British and Irish Bronze Age Implements in the Borough of Newbury Museum :
1970
by H. H. Coghlan

The Rise of the Iron Industry to Roman Times.
1954
by Coghlan, H

House Publications

Some experiments in early copper
paper on the origin and development of prehistoric iron working offered [A71]
1941.04.29 Mr. H. H. Coghlan read his paper on " Prehistoric Iron Prior to the Dispersion of the Hittite Empire," illustrated by lantern slides.

Related Material Details

RAI Material

census

Other Material

Pitt Rivers