1720s in archaeology

	… 1710; 1711; 1712; 1713; 1714; 1715; 1716; ; 1717; 1718; 1719; 1720; 1721; 1722; 1723; ; 1724; 1725; 1726; 1727; 1728; 1729; 1730 …;
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The decade of the 1720s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1723: Roman inscribed stone found in Chichester, England.
1725: Rudge Cup found in England.
1727: Gilt bronze head from cult statue of Sulis Minerva from the Temple at Bath, England, found by workmen excavating a sewer.

1723: Antoine de Jussieu publishes De l'Origine et des usages de la Pierre de Foudre on the origins of fossils, prehistoric stone tools and meteorites.[1]

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