Michael W. Pitts

Hello, thanks for looking! I’m a writer and broadcaster, archaeologist (I've directed excavations at Stonehenge) and former museum curator. My books include A Fairweather Eden: Excavations at Boxgrove (“Outstanding”, Mail on Sunday non-fiction choice), Hengeworld (“Reads like an unputdownable novel”, Time Team Book Club), Digging for Richard III (“An utterly compelling read”, Independent on Sunday; Kirkus Reviews *), Digging up Britain (“Highly readable and hugely enjoyable”, British Museum Magazine), and How to Build Stonehenge (“A gripping archaeological detective story… tells us something eternal about the human spirit”, Sunday Times). I’ve also written for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph, New Scientist, BBC History Magazine, Spectator and other papers and magazines, and conduct original research and publish in peer-reviewed journals. I edited British Archaeology magazine for 20 years and I’m a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries