2016 in archaeology

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]
• 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]

Finds

• March
  • Announcement of the discovery of a Bronze Age burial site near Morecambe Bay in England.^[8]
  • Wrecks in Portsmouth Harbour (England) are identified as World War I German destroyers V44 and V82.^[9]
• June 25 – Anglo-Saxon name stone at site of Lindisfarne monastery.
• July – Flower found as part of a Bronze Age votive offering in Lancashire, England.^[10]
• October – An Imperial German Navy U-boat, probably SM UB-85 (sunk 1918), is found off the west coast of Scotland.^[11]

Miscellaneous

• 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.^[12]

Deaths

• March 6 – María Rostworowski, Peruvian historian (b. 1915)

See also

• List of years in archaeology

References