Francis Pryor

Who is Francis Pryor?

Francis Manning Marlborough Pryor, MBE, FSA 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 studied at Eton College before going on to study archaeology at Trinity College, Cambridge. With his first wife, he moved to Canada, where he worked as a technician at the Royal Ontario Museum for a year before returning to England.

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.