1827 in archaeology
The year 1827 CE in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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Excavations
- May 17 - St Cuthbert's coffin at Durham Cathedral opened by James Raine.[1]
- 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.
Publications
Births
- April 14 - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, English archaeologist (died 1900 as Augustus Pitt Rivers).[2]
References
- "St Cuthbert's Society: About St Cuthbert's - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
- "Historic Figures: Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827 - 1900)". BBC History. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
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