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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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The Medieval Mystery of the Booted Man in the Mud

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
04.12.2018

A mysterious male skeleton, lying face-down deep in the Thames mud, with a pair of in-situ thigh-high leather boots has been discovered by our MOLA Headland archaeologists working on one of the sites being used to build London’s super sewer in Bermondsey.

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Full steam ahead for HS2 archaeology programme

MOLA Headland Infrastructure
31.10.2018

HS2's archaeology programme is the largest archaeological project to have ever taken place in the UK. Over 1,000 specialists are working across 60 sites along the 150 mile route. The project is an unprecedented research opportunity.

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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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Archaeological finds: A human connection to the Cambridgeshire landscape through time

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
10.10.2018

During the excavation phase of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, we uncovered many unique and fascinating objects that reveal human connections to the Cambridgeshire landscape through time.

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From dig to desk: the story of the A14C2H archaeology programme is just beginning

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
13.09.2018

As the excavations on one of the UK’s largest ever archaeological projects draw to a close, we now start the huge challenge of pulling the results together, to paint a more detailed picture of over 6000 years of history.

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