1670s in archaeology

1660s ^. 1670s in archaeology ^. 1680s

Explorations

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: 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.^[1]
1676: The first fossilised bone of what is now known to be a dinosaur is discovered in England by Robert Plot, the femur of a Megalosaurus from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.^[2]

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).^[3]

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