1855 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1855.

Excavations

 * May - Heath Wood barrow cemetery in England, by Thomas Bateman.
 * Dalton Parlours Roman villa in Yorkshire, England, by F Carroll.

Finds

 * January 19 - Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II in a necropolis near Sidon.

Events

 * December 14 - inaugural meeting of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society

Publications

 * John Yonge Akerman - Remains of Pagan Saxondom.
 * Churchill Babington (ed.) - Benefizio della Morte di Cristo, a remarkable book of the Reformation period.

Births

 * September 10 - Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (d. 1925).

Deaths

 * April 15 - William John Bankes, English Member of Parliament, explorer and Egyptologist (b. 1786).