The decade of the1650s in archaeology involved some significant events.

• 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.

• 1652: 8 October -John Greaves, English mathematician, astronomer and antiquary (b.1602)^[1]

• Archaeology by decade
• 17th century in archaeology
• 1650s in science

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