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
Finds
Awards
Miscellaneous
Births
- April 14 - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, English archaeologist (died 1900 as Augustus Pitt Rivers).[2]
Deaths
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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