Staff Profile:Dr Robert Fry
- Name:
- Dr Rob Fry
- Job Title:
- Research Fellow in Geographical Information Systems
- Responsibilities:
Rob is responsible for a variety of field-based geophysics projects which support the research and teaching programme of the school. The range of activities is wide and includes; organising geophysical survey, maintaining geophysical and surveying equipment and software, processing data, and the creation of graphical output such as geophysical interpretations and published detailed reports. Rob is also involved with the teaching and mentoring of students for related research.
- Areas of Interest:
Geophysical survey, interpretation, data processing and analysis. GIS support.
- Research groups / Centres:
- ISAP International Society for Archaeological Prospection
- DART: Detection of Archaeological Residues using Remote Sensing Techniques
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ISSGAP: Interactions between Soil Science and Geophysics in Archaeological Prospection
Key Facts:
Rob has worked in archaeological and shallow geophysics for 10 years in both commercial and research organisations, during which time he was a prominent member within the Management Committee for the International Society for Archaeological Prospection (ISAP). Rob was the Project Officer for the Silchester Mapping Project, based at Reading University, and has surveyed many hundreds of hectares within and around the Roman Town of Calleva. He has also worked as a geophysicist for The British School at Rome, Wessex Archaeology, Archaeophysica, and Earthsound Archaeological Geophysics.
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 13.
2019
- Schmidt, A., Fry, R., Parkyn, A., Bonsall, J. and Gaffney, C. (2019) Predicting the contrast in earth resistance data from weather observations. In: The Soil Science and Archaeo-Geophysics Alliance (SAGA) Workshop 1, 30 Sep - 1 Oct 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.
2018
- Fry, R. (2018) Visualization of magnetometer data. In: Lopez Varela, S. (ed.) The SAS Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9780470674611
2017
- Schmidt, A., Fry, R., Parkyn, A., Bonsall , J. and Gaffney, C. (2017) When the time is right: the impact of weather variations on the contrast in earth resistance data. In: Jennings, B., Gaffney, C., Sparrow, T. and Gaffney, S. (eds.) AP2017 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp. 218-219. ISBN 9781784916770
2016
- Creighton, J. and Fry, R. (2016) Silchester: changing visions of a Roman town. Integrating geophysics and archaeology - the results of the Silchester Mapping Project 2005-10. Britannia Monograph Series, 28. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, pp448. ISBN 9780907764427
2015
- Gaffney, C., Harris, C., Pope-Carter, F., Bonsall, J., Fry, R. and Parkyn, A. (2015) Still searching for graves: an analytical strategy for interpreting geophysical data used in the search for “unmarked” graves. Near Surface Geophysics, 13 (6). pp. 557-569. ISSN 1569-4445 doi: https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2015029
- Harris, C., Gaffney, C., Pope-Carter, F., Bonsall, J., Fry, R. and Parkyn, A. (2015) High Royds: an integrated, analytical approach for mapping the unmarked burials of a pauper cemetery. Archaeologia Polona, 53. pp. 467-471. ISSN 0066-5924
2014
- Fry, R. (2014) Time-lapse geophysical investigations over known archaeological features using electrical resistivity imaging and earth resistance. PhD thesis, University of Bradford.
2013
- Bonsall , J., Fry, R., Pope-Carter, F., Gaffney, C. and Armit, I. (2013) Mapping prehistoric wooden trackways using time domain induced polarisation. In: Neubauer, W., Trinks, I., Salisbury, R. and Einwogerer, C. (eds.) Archaeological Prospection Proceedings of the 10th International Conference. Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, pp. 277-279. ISBN 9783700174592
- Boddice , D., Fry, R., Beck, A., Gaffney, C., Metje, N. and Schmidt, A. (2013) The impact on environmental dynamics on multiple sensor responses over archaeological features, examples from the DART Project. In: Neubauer, W., Trinks, I., Salisbury, R. and Einwogerer, C. (eds.) Archaeological Prospection Proceedings of the 10th International Conference. Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, pp. 415-418. ISBN 9783700174592
- Bonsall, J., Fry, R., Gaffney, C., Armit, I., Beck, A. and Gaffney, V. (2013) Assessment of the CMD Mini-Explorer, a new low-frequency multi-coil electromagnetic device, for archaeological investigations. Archaeological Prospection, 20 (3). pp. 219-231. ISSN 1075-2196 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1458
2011
- Fry, R., Gaffney, C. and Beck, A. (2011) The DART Project: a major new investigation into what lies beneath our soils. In: Drahor, M. and Berge, M. (eds.) Archaeological Prospection: 9th international conference on archaelogical prospection, September 19-24, 2011, Izmir, Turkey : extended abstracts. Archaeology and Art Publications, Izmir, Turkey, pp. 37-39. ISBN 9786053961550
- Fry, R., Gaffney, C., Sparrow, T. and Batt, C. (2011) FlashRes64 electrical resistivity imaging for archaeological applications. In: Drahor, M. and Berge, M. (eds.) Archaeological Prospection. Archaeology and Art Publications: 9th international conference on archaelogical prospection, September 19-24, 2011, Izmir, Turkey : extended abstracts, Izmir, Turkey, pp. 108-111. ISBN 9786053961550
- Strutt, K., Fry, R., Prevosti, M. and Carreras Monfort, C. (2011) Memoria de les prospeccions geofisiques realitzades a l’ager Tarragonensis. In: Ager Tarraconensis Volume 2: El poblament, Tarragona. Institut Català D'Estudis Catalans, pp. 223-248. ISBN 9788493773458
