my-server
Home
Login
← Wiki
1855 in archaeology
Below are notable events in
archaeology
that occurred in
1855
.
Excavations
May -
Heath Wood barrow cemetery
in England, by
Thomas Bateman
.
Dalton Parlours Roman villa
in Yorkshire, England, by F Carroll.
Finds
January 19 -
Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II
in a necropolis near
Sidon
.
Approximate date -
Corraghy Heads
and
Corleck Head
in Ireland.
Events
December 14 - inaugural meeting of the
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
Publications
John Yonge Akerman
-
Remains of Pagan Saxondom
.
Churchill Babington
(ed.) -
Benefizio della Morte di Cristo
, a remarkable book of the Reformation period.
Births
September 10 -
Robert Koldewey
,
German
archaeologist
(d.
1925
).
Deaths
April 15 -
William John Bankes
,
English
Member of Parliament, explorer and
Egyptologist
(b.
1786
).
References