1650s in archaeology
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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)[1]