Julia Farley


Julia Farley is a British archaeologist specialising in Iron Age and Roman metalwork. She is the Curator of the European Iron Age & Roman Conquest Period collections at the British Museum.

Career

Farley completed her PhD at the University of Leicester in 2012 with a thesis titled 'At the Edge of Empire:Iron Age and early Roman metalwork in the East Midlands'. She subsequently worked at the British Museum for a year as curator of European Iron Age collections before returning to the University Leicester in 2013 for a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. She returned to the British Museum in 2016. She has contributed an article to The Conversation news outlet on metal detecting.
Farley was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 December 2016.

Select publications