Blog

Blog

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.

Pages

Old Maps, New Tricks: Georectifying London’s Historic Maps

Sarah Jones - Head of Geomatics
20.09.2018

Head of Geomatics Sarah Jones reveals how our geomatics team georectified 9 historic maps for the Layers of London project, and created invaluable GIS datasets and ArcGIS models in the process.

Read more...
Excavating Iturissa: Teaching new skills in the Basque Country, Spain

Claudia Tommasino
17.09.2018

Each summer, our experts have been travelling out to the town of Auritz/Burguete in the Basque region of Spain to work alongside Aranzadi’s team and train their students and volunteers. In this blog, hear from our Fieldwork Trainer, Claudia Tommasino, about a summer sharing skills and making new discoveries on the continent.

Read more...
Our long summer gives us a new perspective on Britain’s archaeology

MOLA team
10.09.2018

The record breaking summer of 2018 has been a remarkable one for our aerial survey team who joined Tony Robinson and Channel 4’s Hidden Britain by Drone team to investigate some new parch marks that have appeared over the summer.

Read more...
New archaeological evidence excavated at Shakespeare’s The Theatre as preparations to put archaeological remains centre stage in new exhibition commence

MOLA team
29.08.2018

Our team of archaeologists have embarked on an exciting new excavation at the site of Shakespeare’s London playhouse and Hackney’s first Scheduled Ancient Monument, The Theatre.

Read more...
Phil Villars of Indigo Planning shares his thoughts on the proposed changes to the NPPF

MOLA team
22.08.2018

Phil Villars of Indigo Planning, has been discussing the recent revisions to the NPPF with our Director of Heritage Consultancy, Chris Thomas. They consider what impact the revisions will have on housebuilding and heritage policy.

Read more...