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- Excavations
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- Events
- Births
- Deaths
- See also
- References
{{Year nav topic4|1823|archaeology|science}}The year 1823 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations- Roman tombs near Lorium, Etruria (1823–4).
- Roman villa near Bramdean, Hampshire, England.
Finds- January - In a cave on the Gower Peninsula of south Wales, Rev. William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial. The bones are discovered with those of the woolly mammoth, proving that the two had coexisted.[1]
- Summer - Smythe's Megalith, a Neolithic tomb, is discovered in Kent, England, and excavated by local antiquarian Clement Smythe.
- Borough Hill Roman villa in the midlands of England is discovered by archaeologist, George Baker.[2]
- The Caergwrle Bowl, a decorated Middle Bronze Age artefact, is discovered in north east Wales.
- The Ormside bowl, a gilded silver Anglo-Saxon double-bowl, dating from the mid-8th century, is found in Great Ormside, Cumbria.[3]
Events- Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan completes reconstruction of the Northumbrian Ruthwell Cross in Scotland.
Births- Giuseppe Fiorelli, Italian archaeologist of Pompeii (died 1896)
Deaths- December 3 - Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer of Egyptian antiquities (born 1778)
See also- Ancient Egypt / Egyptology
References1. ^{{cite journal|first=Stephen|last=Aldhouse-Green|title=Great Sites: Paviland Cave|journal=British Archaeology|issue=61 |url=http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba61/feat3.shtml|accessdate=2010-07-16 |date=October 2001}} 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Johns|first1=Ashleigh|title=Borough Hill & Cracks Hill|url=https://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/leisure/borough-hill-cracks-hill/|website=www.daventrydc.gov.uk|accessdate=22 December 2017|language=en|date=22 November 2011}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/search/item/?id=538&search_query=c2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9b3Jtc2lkZStib3ds |title=Ormside Bowl |publisher=York Museums Trust |accessdate=15 February 2018}}
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