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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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MOLA’s CITiZAN project wins National Charity Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage

MOLA team
08.06.2018

We’re delighted to announce the CITiZAN project (the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network) has won the Arts, Culture and Heritage award at the Charity Awards 2018! The award recognises three years of successfully mobilising local communities and training them to monitor and record Britain’s rich but at-risk archaeological sites along over 6000 miles of coastline and tidal foreshore.

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MOLA archaeologists to conduct first excavation at Sutton Hoo Royal Burial Ground in almost 30 years

MOLA team
24.05.2018

We’re really excited to be involved in a transformational project at the world-famous Anglo-Saxon site with the National Trust.

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Skills, archaeology and economic growth

MOLA team
23.05.2018

Next month our CEO Janet Miller is chairing the skills session at the Oxford Cambridge Corridor Economic Growth Conference 2018. A panel of influential speakers is coming together to ask: How do we develop the skills needed to grow the economy? What new skills do we need?

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Interview with Dr Carole Fry, Conservation Practitioner, Architectural Historian and founding Director of AHC Consultants, on the housing crisis

MOLA team
23.05.2018

Dr Carole Fry touches on some of the pressing issues discussed at our housing crisis panel debate and gives her view of how the historic environment can positively influence new housing

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A perfect storm in a tea cup: Archaeology and Britain’s favourite drink

MOLA team
18.04.2018

Today is National Tea Day, where the nation joins together to celebrate the beloved cuppa. But where did our love of tea come from? And what does it have to do with archaeology? Our work is helping to provide some of the answers.

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