title: 1830 in archaeology
text: # 1830 in archaeology
  
  1830 in archaeology
  
  ## Publications
  
  * First volume of Lord Kingsborough's 9 volume Antiquities of Mexico
  
  ## Finds
  
  * Discovery of Pagans Hill Roman temple in south-west England
  * Possible date – Discovery of Hunterston Brooch in Scotland
  
  ## Institutions
  
  * February 2 – Yorkshire Museum opened by Yorkshire Philosophical Society in York, England
  * Geographical Society of London, predecessor of the Royal Geographical Society, is formed
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 14 – Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist (d. 1905)
  