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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 CITiZAN Discovery Programmes awarded National Lottery funding to target regions where coastal archaeology is vulnerable to extreme erosion

MOLA team
09.01.2019

CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, has been awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish six Discovery Programmes in areas where the risk to intertidal and coastal archaeology is extreme.

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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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MAAST in motion: Fragments of the past

Jacqui Pearce
19.12.2018

As ‘Understanding Archaeological Finds’ at MAAST (MOLA Academy of Archaeological Specialist Training) reaches its mid-term point, Jacqui Pearce, our internationally renowned expert who is leading the course, rounds up the first 11 weeks.

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MAAST in Motion: Pottery from America Square

MOLA team
06.12.2018

MAAST (MOLA Academy for Archaeological Specialist Training) began earlier this autumn and we welcomed fifteen fantastic participants to term one. In this blog, we hear from Amardeep who has had a life-long passion for archaeology about where it all began and what he's learnt so far

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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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