Richard Timothy Schadla-Hall, FSA (24 September 1947 – 9 January 2023) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of how the archaeological discipline interacts with the public.

[1][2][3][4] In 1971, Schadla-Hall gained his BA in archaeology from the University of Cambridge, before attaining his MA there in 1974.

From 1985 to 1997, Schadla-Hall and Paul Mellars co-directed an excavation of the Mesolithic settlement site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire; it had previously been excavated by Grahame Clark in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

[6] Schadla-Hall was editor of the journal Public Archaeology [7] and a trustee of the veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered, which conducts an annual excavation on the site of the Battle of Waterloo with veterans and serving personnel.

[8][9][10] On 1 January 1990, Schadla-Hall was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).