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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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How do you conserve a pair of 200-year-old slippers?

MOLA Headland team
21.08.2019

Conservator Lucie gives us a glimpse into the important work she has been doing to conserve a pair of 200-year-old leather slippers found during excavations for HS2 at St James's burial ground, Euston.

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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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The case for an archaeology of the ‘Jungle’

Sarah Mallet
02.07.2019

Sarah Mallet, a TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellow based at the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford reflects on the Dzhangal Archaeology Project.

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Prittlewell princely burial secrets revealed in new research

MOLA team
09.05.2019

Today, we’ve published two new books with research revealing previously hidden insights into the Prittlewell princely burial and the man buried.

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