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. Source: Wikipedia (en)