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Welcome to the MOLA blog. Explore our latest news, discoveries, stories and content. Our blog posts are created by archaeologists and specialists from across the organisation and cover a range of fascinating and informative topics. Browse our posts using the tags, join in the discussion and share with your network.

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HS2 Head of Heritage, Helen Wass, on delivering the country’s largest linear infrastructure project

MOLA team
06.12.2018

HS2 is the country’s largest linear infrastructure project and offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore our past.

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MAAST in Motion: Pottery from America Square

MOLA team
06.12.2018

MAAST (MOLA Academy for Archaeological Specialist Training) began earlier this autumn and we welcomed fifteen fantastic participants to term one. In this blog, we hear from Amardeep who has had a life-long passion for archaeology about where it all began and what he's learnt so far

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What on earth is geophysics?

MOLA team
06.12.2018

Geophysical survey is often stipulated by local authority archaeologists as an integral part of archaeological site investigations in planning conditions. But what is geophysical survey and why use it?

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The Medieval Mystery of the Booted Man in the Mud

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
04.12.2018

A mysterious male skeleton, lying face-down deep in the Thames mud, with a pair of in-situ thigh-high leather boots has been discovered by our MOLA Headland archaeologists working on one of the sites being used to build London’s super sewer in Bermondsey.

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Medieval St Paul’s Cathedral destroyed in the Great Fire to be reconstructed in virtual reality

MOLA team
16.11.2018

We are collaborating on a project led by Professor John Wall of NCSU, to bring the Medieval St Paul's Cathedral back to life.

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