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- This page lists major archaeological events of 2016.
Excavations
- January–June – 81 Anglo-Saxon wooden coffin Christian burials of the 7th/9th centuries are excavated in an unusually well-preserved state at Great Ryburgh in Norfolk, England.[1]
- January 12 – Announcement of the discovery and excavation of two roundhouses in an exceptionally good state of preservation at Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in The Fens of eastern England.[2]
- February 19 – Announcement of the discovery and excavation of a largely complete wheel at Must Farm Bronze Age settlement.[3]
- April 17 – Announcement of the discovery and initial excavations of an exceptionally large Roman villa, well-preserved, at Brixton Deverill in Wiltshire, England.[4]
- Summer – Excavation of Early Middle Ages sites at Tintagel Castle on the coast of Cornwall.
- November 3 – Announcement of the discovery of a Bronze Age city in Bassetki, Iraq.[5]
- November 24 – Announcement of the discovery of an Early Dynastic Period city and graves near Abydos, Egypt.[6]
- November 30 – Announcement of the excavation of a Black Death plague pit at Thornton Abbey in eastern England.[7]
- Ancient Black Sea shipwrecks – The Black Sea Maritime Archaeology Project is initiated; within a few months it locates and investigates 41 shipwrecks off the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea, some dating date back to Byzantine times.[8]
- Practice trenches probably dug by Australian troops in 1916 at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain in England are excavated.
- Foundations of an Anglo-Saxon house at Long Wittenham in the Thames Valley of England are excavated.[9]
Finds
- March
- Announcement of the discovery of a Bronze Age burial site near Morecambe Bay in England.[10]
- Wrecks in Portsmouth Harbour (England) are identified as World War I German destroyers V44 and V82.[11]
- June 1 – Archaeologists identify a Roman object found during construction of Bloomberg's new offices in the City of London as the oldest known hand-written document in the United Kingdom, dating back to AD 54.[12]
- June 25 – Anglo-Saxon name stone at site of Lindisfarne monastery.[13]
- July – Flower found as part of a Bronze Age votive offering in Lancashire, England.[14]
- September 3 – The second ship of Franklin's lost expedition, HMS Terror (1813), is located.[15]
- September – Wreck of whaleback freighter SS Clifton, lost in 1924, is located in Lake Huron.[16]
- October – An Imperial German Navy U-boat, probably SM UB-85 (sunk 1918), is found off the west coast of Scotland.[17]
- December – Leekfrith torcs in Staffordshire, England.[18]
Events
- October 3 – Announcement that the mound of the motte-and-bailey castle at Skipsea Castle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England is an Iron Age earthwork, the largest in Britain.[19]
Deaths
- March 6 – María Rostworowski, Peruvian historian (b. 1915).[20]
- March 20 – Stanley South, American archaeologist (b. 1928).[21]
- April 7 – Charles Thomas, Cornish prehistorian (b. 1928)[22]
- July 5 – Beatrice De Cardi, British archaeologist of Asia (b. 1914).[23]
- September 26 – Don Brothwell, British archaeologist (b. 1933)[24]
See also
- List of years in archaeology
References
- "Great Ryburgh dig finds 81 'rare' Anglo-Saxon coffins". BBC News. BBC. 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
- "Bronze Age houses uncovered in Cambridgeshire 'best ever'". BBC News. 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
- "Bronze Age wheel at 'British Pompeii' Must Farm an 'unprecedented find'". BBC News. 2016-02-19. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- "Roman villa unearthed 'by chance' in Wiltshire garden". BBC News. 2016-04-17. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
- "Bedeutende bronzezeitliche Stadt im Nordirak entdeckt" (in German). University of Tübingen. 2016-11-03. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
- "Egypt ancient city unearthed by archaeologists". BBC News. 2016-11-24. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
- "Thornton Abbey Black Death plague pit excavated". BBC News. 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
- Coghlan, Andy (2016-10-20). "Dozens of ancient shipwrecks spotted deep beneath the Black Sea". New Scientist. London. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
- "House of Wessex Anglo-Saxon building opens". BBC News. 2019-11-28. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
- Alberge, Dalya (2016-03-13). "3 rare bronze age burial site lay undisturbed 'for millennia'". The Observer. London. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- Keys, David (2016-03-24). "German WWI warships rediscovered in Portsmouth Harbour after lying forgotten for decades". The Independent. London. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
- "UK's oldest hand-written document at Roman London dig". BBC News. BBC. 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- "Evidence points to earliest Anglo-Saxon monastery - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- Alberge, Dalya (2016-10-01). "3,000-year-old flower found in burial hoard". The Guardian. London. p. 13. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- Pringle, Heather (2016-06-13). "Unlikely Tip Leads to Discovery of Historic Shipwreck". National Geographic. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
- Dier, Arden (2017-09-22). "Great Mystery of the Great Lakes Is Solved: SS Clifton found 100 miles south of last known location in Lake Huron". Newser. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- "Wreck of German U-boat found off coast of Stranraer". BBC News. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2016-10-19.
- Kennedy, Maev (2017-02-28). "Detectorists strike gold 20 years after leaving field empty-handed". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- "Largest Iron Age monument found at Skipsea Castle". BBC News. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- "María Rostworowski obituary". The Guardian. 6 April 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- "Stanley South Student Archaeological Research Fund". University of South Carolina. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- Fowler, Peter (8 May 2016). "Charles Thomas obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
- "Beatrice de Cardi, archaeologist – obituary". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- "In Memoriam Don Brothwell - Archaeology, The University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
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