Sophia Adams

Sophia Anne Adams is a British archaeologist and curator. She is the Curator of Europe First Millennium to Roman Conquest collections at the British Museum.

Biography Adams completed her PhD in 2014 at the University of Leicester with a thesis titled "The first brooches in Britain: from manufacture to deposition in the Early and Middle Iron Age". She was a Research Associate at the University of Bristol from 2014 to 2017. In 2021 she joined the British Museum in her current role.

On 30 January 2025 Adams was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Select publications Webley, L. and Adams, S. 2016. "Material Genealogies: Bronze Moulds and their Castings in Later Bronze Age Britain", Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 82, 323–340. Webley, L. Adams, S., and Brück, J. 2020. The Social Context of Technology: Non-ferrous Metalworking in Later Prehistoric Britain and Ireland (Prehistoric Society Research Papers). Oxbow. Adams, S., Martinón-Torres, M., and Webley, L. 2021. "Diversity in Iron Age metalworking: a unique crucible from Westwood, Coventry", Historical Metallurgy 50(2), 78–84. Adams, S., Beamish, M., Cartwright, C., and Wills, B. 2024. "The Enderby Bark Shield: A New Model for the Ancient World". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 90, 205–228. Adams, S., Craddock, P., Hook, D., La Niece, S., Meeks, N., O'Flynn, D., and Perucchett, L. 2024. "The Pulborough Gold Torc: a 4th to 3rd century BCE artefact of European significance", Internet Archaeology 67