title: 1650s in archaeology
text: # 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)
  