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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.

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MOLA's Time Truck project wins The Sandford Award for Heritage Education

MOLA team
30.07.2018

We are thrilled to announce that our Time Truck project has won The Sandford Award for Heritage Education 2018, an accolade normally only open to museums and historic houses.

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CITiZAN awarded development funding to pilot new programme

MOLA team
03.07.2018

We’re delighted to announce that our first round application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to grow the CITiZAN project beyond its original three-year programme was successful.

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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!

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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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