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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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New book reveals how Bronze Age elites used burial monuments to stake their claim on the Hampshire landscape

MOLA team
28.08.2019

We have just published a new book revealing how local populations may have used burial monuments to mark their claim on the Hampshire landscape during the Bronze Age.

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Wartime public health posters found in Drapers’ Hall basement give insight into its air raid shelter past

MOLA team
14.08.2019

Our historic building recording of Drapers’ Hall ahead of its transformation into a new music venue by Historic Coventry Trust with support from The Prince’s Foundation has been revealing the social history of the urban centre of Coventry during the Blitz. In this blog, Historic Building Officer Lauren Wilson explores what has been revealed about how the basement provided shelter for local people during the Second World War…

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Food or foe? Exploring unusual plant foods along the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme

MOLA Headland team
12.08.2019

As our archaeobotany team move through the post-excavation process for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme they are uncovering clues about the other plant-based foods which are likely to have had an important role in the diet of past populations. Let’s explore the potentially toxic world of pulses.

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Favourite finds from Drapers’ Hall dig in Coventry

MOLA team
02.08.2019

We share some of our favourite finds from excavations at Drapers' Hall in Coventry including a bird bone pen, ladle bowls, set of beads and a fragment of medieval glass.

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‘I went to Rome and all I got you was this stylus!’ Rare inscribed Roman writing implement discovered beneath Bloomberg’s European HQ goes on display

MOLA team
28.07.2019

A unique Roman stylus, with the most elaborate and expressive inscription of its kind is set to go on display for the first time.

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New book reveals how Bronze Age elites used burial monuments to stake their claim on the Hampshire landscape

Wartime public health posters found in Drapers’ Hall basement give insight into its air raid shelter past

Food or foe? Exploring unusual plant foods along the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme

Favourite finds from Drapers’ Hall dig in Coventry

‘I went to Rome and all I got you was this stylus!’ Rare inscribed Roman writing implement discovered beneath Bloomberg’s European HQ goes on display

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