page_title: 1740s in archaeology
section_title: Finds
hierarchical_section_title: 1740s in archaeology / Finds
caption_attribution_description: English: Elaborate lamp from Herculaneum
context_page_description: The decade of the 1740s in archaeology involved some significant events.
context_section_description: 1743: The Barkway hoard of Roman objects is found in Hertfordshire, England.
  1747: The mummified remains known as "Amcotts Moor Woman", a bog body, is unearthed from a peat bog in Lincolnshire, England.
  1747: Substantial remains of the Temple of Apollo are discovered in Mdina, Malta. Many of the ruins are dispersed among private collections.
  1747: Capheaton Treasure, a Roman silver hoard, is found in Northumberland, England. Some of it is melted down.
  1748: Pompeii rediscovered as the result of formal excavations by Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.
  1749: Stabiae rediscovered by Joaquin de Alcubierre.
caption: Elaborate oil lamp from Herculaneum, as depicted in Le Antichità di Ercolano (1744).
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