Geoff Egan

Geoffrey Egan, (19 October 1951 – 24 December 2010) was a British archaeologist, medievalist and small finds expert. He spent the majority of his career as an archaeologist with the Museum of London's Department of Urban Archaeology (later Museum of London Archaeology), rising from a field archaeologist to a fieldwork director and then a finds specialist. From 2004 to his death, on secondment to the British Museum, he was the national finds adviser on early medieval to post-medieval finds for the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Early life and education
Egan was born on 19 October 1951 in Wembley or Harrow, London, England. He was educated at Harrow County School for Boys, an all-boys grammar school in Harrow. He then matriculated into Peterhouse, Cambridge, first studying classics before switching to the joint archaeology and anthropology degree. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976.

In 1988, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the University of London for a doctoral thesis titled "Provenanced leaden cloth seals".