1650s in archaeology

The decade of the 1650s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

Publications

• 1655: William Dugdale - Monasticon Anglicanum begins publication.
• 1656: William Dugdale - Antiquities of Warwickshire.
• 1658: Thomas Browne - Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk.

Deaths

• 1652: 8 October - John Greaves, English mathematician, astronomer and antiquary (b. 1602)

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