Rose Ferraby

Ferraby has an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art and a BA in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge.{{cite web|title=Rose Ferraby|url=http://cambridge.academia.edu/RoseFerraby|website=Academia.EDU|accessdate=29 September 2019}} She completed her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2015, entitled 'Stone Exposures: a Cultural Geology of the Jurassic Coast'.{{cite thesis|title=Stone Exposures: A Cultural Geology of the Jurassic Coast|hdl=10871/18951|hdl-access=free|publisher=University of Exeter|date=27 April 2015|last1=Ferraby|first1=Rose}}

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Rose Ferraby is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge.{{cite web |title=Dr Rose Ferraby |url=https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-rose-ferraby |website=University of Cambridge |date=3 February 2017 |accessdate=29 September 2019}} She is co-director of the Aldborough Roman Town Project.{{cite web |title=Aldborough Roman Town Project |url=https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/aldborough-roman-town-project-1 |website=University of Cambridge - Faculty of Classics |date=10 May 2019 |accessdate=29 September 2019}} Prior to her PhD research, she worked as an archaeologist for the British School at Rome, where she worked on numerous sites, including Falacrinae, the birthplace of Vespasian.{{cite journal |title=Investigations at Falacrinae |journal=Papers of the British School at Rome |date=2008 |volume=76 |pages=47–73 |doi=10.1017/S0068246200000416 |s2cid=140597739 }} Her expertise includes Roman Britain and using digital techniques to understand landscapes, publishing on photogrammetry on the Jurassic Coast.{{cite journal |title=Heritage and landscape change: Recording, archiving and engaging with photogrammetry on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site |journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association |date=2019 |volume=130 |issue=3–4 |pages=483–92|doi=10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.02.007 |last1=Ferraby |first1=Rose |last2=Powlesland |first2=Dominic |bibcode=2019PrGA..130..483F |s2cid=166782827 }} Ferraby has also published on archaeological landscapes of rainforest in Sarawak,{{cite journal |title=The Cultured Rainforest Project |journal=Sarawak Museum Journal |date=2008 |volume=66 |pages=119–84 |url=https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/41875 |accessdate=9 October 2019}} part of a collaborative project at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, as well as on the surveys of Roman Aldborough.{{cite journal |title=Archaeological Field Survey in the Environs of Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) |journal=Yorkshire Archaeological Journal |date=2018 |volume=90 |pages=29–58 |doi=10.1080/00844276.2018.1457615|last1=Dobinson |first1=Colin |last2=Ferraby |first2=Rose |last3=Lucas |first3=Jason |last4=Millett |first4=Martin |last5=Wallace |first5=Lacey |s2cid=216785781 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275796 }} In 2020 she and Martin Millett published Isurium Brigantium: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough which was described by Michael Fulford as "the essential foundation upon which to build future research at Aldborough".{{Cite journal|last=Fulford|first=Michael|date=April 2021|title=Rose Ferraby & Martin Millett. 2020. Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough (Research Reports of the Society of Antiquaries of London 81). London: Society of Antiquaries of London; 978-0-8543-1301-3 hardback £35.|journal=Antiquity|language=en|volume=95|issue=380|pages=559–561|doi=10.15184/aqy.2021.3|issn=0003-598X|doi-access=}}

In addition and alongside archaeology, Ferraby explores landscape histories through creative practice. She collaborated with archaeologist Mark Edmonds on the 2013 publication 'Stonework' which examined prehistoric landscapes in Cumbria through poetry and art.{{cite book |last1=Ferraby & Edmonds |title=Stonework |date=2016 |publisher=Little Toller Books |url=https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/stonework-rose-ferraby-mark-edmonds/ |accessdate=1 October 2019}} Other collaborations include with Common Ground to produce a tree map of Exeter in 2016{{cite web |title=Tree Tales |url=https://www.commonground.org.uk/tree-tales/ |website=Common Ground |accessdate=1 October 2019|date=21 April 2016 }} and in 2019 a collaboration with sound artist Rob St. John.{{cite web |title=Soundmarks - a Beginning |url=https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2019/06/soundmarks-beginnings/ |website=Caught By the River |accessdate=1 October 2019}} This project examined the sub-surface landscapes of Aldborough Roman town through field recording,{{cite web |title=Sounding Aldborough |url=https://soundcloud.com/soundingaldborough |website=Soundcloud |accessdate=1 October 2019}} print-making and illustration to produce a walkable trail exploring the site.{{cite web |title=Soundmarks |url=https://soundmarks.co.uk/ |website=Soundmarks |accessdate=1 October 2019}}

BBC Radio 3 invited her to present a programme on gypsum in 2018, as a result of her interdisciplinary approach to art and archaeology.{{cite web |title=Cornerstones: Gypsum |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kqh7m |website=BBC |accessdate=9 October 2019}} In addition she writes on how the intersection between the two informs her practice across both disciplines.{{cite journal |title=Geophysics: creativity and the archaeological imagination |journal=Internet Archaeology |volume=44 |issue=44 |doi=10.11141/ia.44.4 |year=2017 |last1=Ferraby |first1=Rose |doi-access=free }}

As an illustrator, Ferraby has worked on a number of book projects including Tenter by Susie Campbell, which is inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry.{{Cite web|last=Nell|title=SUSIE CAMPBELL & ROSE FERRABY — 'TENTER'|url=https://www.sphinxreview.co.uk/index.php/1126-susie-campbell-rose-ferraby-tenter|access-date=2021-04-27|website=www.sphinxreview.co.uk|language=en-gb}}

• Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough (Society of Antiquaries of London, 2020).{{Cite book|last=Ferraby|first=Rose|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1140352105|title=Isurium Brigantum : an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough|date=2020|others=Martin Millett, Society of Antiquaries of London|isbn=978-0-85431-301-3|location=London|oclc=1140352105}}
• 'The Quarry: Stories from Fragments', Norwegian Archaeological Review 53 (2020).{{Cite journal|last=Ferraby|first=Rose|date=2020-07-02|title=The Quarry: Stories from Fragments|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2020.1830847|journal=Norwegian Archaeological Review|volume=53|issue=2|pages=104–113|doi=10.1080/00293652.2020.1830847|s2cid=232040303|issn=0029-3652}}
• 'Geophysics: creativity and the archaeological imagination', Internet Archaeology 44.

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• [https://soundmarks.co.uk/ Soundmarks]

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