Michael John Lewis is a British archaeologist and Head of the

Portable Antiquities Scheme The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme began in 1997 and now covers ...

Career

Lewis studied at the University of Surrey (Roehampton) and the University of York before researching his PhD at the University of Kent, completed in 2004. He is the current head of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Lewis is a research associate at the University of York and a visiting professor at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

. Between 2012 and 2017 Lewis was a special constable with the Metropolitan Police Art & Antiques Unit. He was elected as a Fellow of the

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on 4 April 2006. He is Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Art Scholars and an adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group.

Select publications

*with P. Deckers & S. Thomas. 2016. ''Aspects of Non-Professional Metal Detecting in Europe''. Open Archaeology. *with N. Speakman 2016. ''Los Pilares de Europa: la edad media en el British Museum''. British Museum/ObraSocial la Caixa. *2014. ''Saints and their Badges: saints’ lives and medieval pilgrim badge''. Greenlight publishing. *with G. Owen-Crocker & D. Terkla. 2011. ''New Research on the Bayeux Tapestry: proceedings of aconference at the British Museum''. Oxbow. * with G. Egan, K. Leahy, J. Naylor & S. Worrell. 2010. ''A Decade of Discovery: proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007''. British Archaeological Reports * 2008.. ''The Real World of the Bayeux Tapestry''. The History Press.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London British archaeologists 21st-century British archaeologists People associated with the Portable Antiquities Scheme {{Archaeologist-stub