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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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Cambridgeshire Ice Age giants uncovered on the A14C2H

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
22.10.2018

Excavations for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme have revealed partial remains belonging to extinct megafauna including woolly mammoth and woolly rhino, thought to be at least 100,000 years old.

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Ask the expert: Environmental Archaeologist

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
20.03.2018

We have been catching up with a few of the specialists bringing their archaeological skills to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, based at the MOLA Headland Infrastructure processing base in St Neots.

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Time Truck takes Earls Court locals on a tour of their past

Magnus Copps
17.05.2016

Magnus and Charlotte took the Time Truck out for a spin at Earls Cout. Find out more.

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Mystery of the Crossrail skulls

MOLA team
24.04.2016

Collaborating with University of Southampton we've undertaken testing of our theory as to why there are so many Roman skulls found in the Walbrook valley.

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April Fools: Remains of an early stew discovered by archaeologists

MOLA team
01.04.2016

April Fools: Rare medieval serving pot discovered by our archaeologists in the Ribble Estuary.

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