Dr Ruth Shaffrey FSA is an archaeologist.
Shaffrey was awarded her PhD in Archaeology and Geology from the University of Reading in 1998. She specialises in the study of quern-stones and millstones and is a worked stone specialist for Oxford Archaeology.[1] Her thesis formed the basis of her 2006 BAR volume on Romano-British quern-stones.[2] In February 2021 she reported on the discovery of a quern-stone decorated with a phallus from excavations on the A14 road in Cambridgeshire.[3]
Shaffrey was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 2 February 2019.[4]