1650s in archaeology

The decade of the 1650s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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)