 Located in the modern town of Voorburg (just outside of The Hague), excavations of the Forum Hadriani began in 1827 and would last through 1833.The whole project was hampered by bad weather and budgetary problems, but Reuvens demonstrated meticulous recording methods and invented techniques for field archaeology along the way.Reuvens moved his family and two of his students into a country house on the purchased land.