Schadla-Hall was born on 24 September 1947. He was educated at
Bridlington Grammar School, and was also a choirboy at
Beverley Minster. Schadla-Hall went to
St Catharine's College, Cambridge to study geography. He graduated with a BA in archaeology in 1971, and then completed a
post-graduate certificate in education. His first book, ''Tom Sheppard: Hull's Great Collector'', was published in 1989. 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. Schadla-Hall was editor of the journal
Public Archaeology 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. On 1 January 1990, Schadla-Hall was elected a
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). Schadla-Hall died on 9 January 2023, at the age of 75. ==Bibliography==