This page lists major archaeological events of 2016.
Excavations
Finds
- March
- Announcement of the discovery of a Bronze Age burial site near Morecambe Bay in England.
- Wrecks in Portsmouth Harbour (England) are identified as World War I German destroyers V44 and V82.
- June 1 – Archaeologists announce identification of one of the Roman Bloomberg tablets found during 2010âÂÂ13 excavations in advance of construction of new Bloomberg London offices in the City of London as the oldest known hand-written document in the United Kingdom, dating back to 57 CE.
- June 25 – Anglo-Saxon name stone at site of Lindisfarne monastery.
- July
- A 7-week-old wolf pup from 57,000 years BP is found perfectly preserved in permafrost in the Klondike, Yukon in northwest Canada.
- Flower found as part of a Bronze Age votive offering in Lancashire, England.
- September 3 – The second ship of Franklin's lost expedition, , is located.
- September 26 - Ten coins (including four Roman and one Ottoman) are found in Katsuren Castle, Okinawa, Japan.
- September – Wreck of whaleback freighter , lost in 1924, is located in Lake Huron.
- October – An Imperial German Navy U-boat, probably SM UB-85 (sunk 1918), is found off the west coast of Scotland.
- December – Leekfrith torcs in Staffordshire, England.
- Wreck of "WA08", a later 19th-century ship carrying Cornish slate, on West Barrow sandbank in the Thames Estuary of England.
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