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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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Ask the expert: Finds Supervisor

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
18.04.2018

Meet the Finds Supervisor, Dr Jim McKeon, who has been managing the processing of 2,000 kilogrammes (almost 2 tons – the weight of an adult rhino) of finds from the 13,000 kg or so expected to be recovered by the end of the excavations.

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Archaeology of A14C2H from the air

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
12.04.2018

Come with us on a birds’-eye-view tour of the archaeology of the Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme!

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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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Ask our Osteologists: Meet Niamh and Elizabeth

Elizabeth Knox and Niamh Carty
08.03.2018

In this blog we speak to Elizabeth and Niamh, two of our dedicated in-house Human Osteologists (human bone specialists) about their fascinating work analysing human remains from our archaeological sites and what this can tell us about women in the archaeological record for International Women’s Day…

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Revealing Canons Ashby: Historic Building Recording uncovers complex development of Elizabethan mansion

Amir Bassir
21.02.2018

We’ve recently completed a programme of historic building recording at Canons Ashby House in Northamptonshire. Hear from Historic Buildings Officer, Amir Bassir, about the fascinating discoveries being made there...

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