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1827 in archaeology
The year 1827 CE in
archaeology
included many events, some of which are listed below.
Excavations
May 17 -
St Cuthbert's coffin
at
Durham Cathedral
opened by
James Raine
.
Yorkshire Philosophical Society
begins excavation of
St Mary's Abbey, York
, prior to construction of the
Yorkshire Museum
on part of the site.
First recorded excavation of
Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
in eastern England.
Caspar Reuvens
, professor of archaeology at
Leiden University
, begins excavation of
Forum Hadriani
, an important
Roman
site in the
Netherlands
, which will last into the 1830s.
Births
April 14 -
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox
,
English
archaeologist
(died
1900
as Augustus Pitt Rivers).
References