John Aubrey was England's first archeologist.

The discovery of Stonehenge was Aubrey's greatest contribution to archeology.

He documented depressions in the ground known as Aubrey’s Holes which were located and excavated in 1921.

Some of his well-known works include Lives of Eminent Men, which was not published until 1823, and Brief Lives, his observations on the lives of the famous men he associated with including Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, and William Shakespeare.