1670s in archaeology

The decade of the 1670s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Finds 1673: December 11 - Gray's Inn Lane Hand Axe excavated in London and recognised by John Conyers, the first paleolithic artefact to be identified as having human origins. 1674: July 17 - Two skeletons of children are discovered in the White Tower (Tower of London), believed at this time to be the remains of the Princes in the Tower. 1676 The first fossilised bone of what will be recognised as a dinosaur is discovered in England by Robert Plot, the femur of a Megalosaurus from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. A Bronze Age lance head is excavated at Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire, England.In the collection at Burton Constable Hall.

Events 1675: March 25 - Loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey.

Births 1671: January 15 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquary (d. 1704). 1673: November 21 - Nicholas Mahudel, French antiquary (d. 1747). 1675: June 1 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (d. 1755).

Deaths

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