The decade of the 1650s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Excavations Finds 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) References Archaeology by decade Archaeology