Francis Pryor

Francis Pryor

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderMale
Birthdayjanv. 13, 1945
BiographyFrancis Manning Marlborough Pryor (born 13 January 1945) is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Britain. He is best known for his discovery and excavation of Flag Fen, a Bronze Age archaeological site near Peterborough, as well as for his frequent appearances on the Channel 4 television series Time Team.

Born to a Burke's Landed Gentry family, Pryor attended Eton College before going on to study archaeology at Trinity College, Cambridge. With his first wife, Sylvia Page, he moved to Canada, where he worked as a technician at the Royal Ontario Museum for a year before returning to Britain.

He has now retired from full-time field archaeology but still appears on television and writes books as well as being a working sheep farmer.

Biography from the Wikipedia article Francis Pryor. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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