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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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18th century Ice House re-discovered beneath the streets of Marylebone

MOLA team
28.12.2018

Our buildings archaeologists have uncovered a huge underground Ice House dating from the 1780s whilst working on behalf of Great Marlborough Estates during the development of Regent’s Crescent.

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Local volunteers record gravestones of their 18th and 19th century forebears

MOLA Headland team
22.12.2018

Over the summer an enthusiastic team of volunteers worked alongside our archaeologists to record the inscriptions of over 350 gravestones associated with St James’s burial ground in Euston, London. The gravestones are being studied for the HS2 archaeology programme.

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MAAST in Motion: Made in China

MOLA team
21.12.2018

In the latest update from MAAST, one of our participants, Han, gives an insight into the personal connection he has with Chinese porcelain and shares the questions that sorting and studying the amazing amount of Chinese porcelain discovered at America Square has raised.

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Recent discoveries from conservation of the Glenfield Park cauldrons

MOLA team
20.12.2018

Our conservation team are well underway in their project to meticulously excavate, record and preserve the remains of a remarkable group of eleven Iron Age cauldrons found by a team from ULAS at Glenfield Park.

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Inspiring stories: Temple of Mithras oral history project digital archive launches

MOLA team
20.12.2018

Following the 2014 Temple of Mithras oral history project we undertook with Bloomberg, a new digital archive of first-hand accounts and ephemera has been launched

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