1823 in archaeology
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The year 1823 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Finds
- Red Lady of PavilandRed Lady of PavilandThe Red Lady of Paviland is a fairly complete Upper Paleolithic-era human male skeleton dyed in red ochre. It was the first human fossil to have been found anywhere in the world and is also the oldest ceremonial burial anywhere in Western Europe so far discovered. The bones were discovered between...
by Rev. William BucklandWilliam BucklandThe Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...
, Gower PeninsulaGower PeninsulaGower or the Gower Peninsula is a peninsula in south Wales, jutting from the coast into the Bristol Channel, and administratively part of the City and County of Swansea. Locally it is known as "Gower"...
in south WalesWalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
. - Smythe's MegalithSmythe's MegalithSmythe's Megalith or the Warren Farm Chamber is the name given to a now lost Neolithic tomb on Blue Bell Hill north of Maidstone in the English county of Kent. The site was probably one of the Medway megaliths, it was around 300 metres NNE of the White Horse Stone on the edge of Westfield...
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