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Becoming an archaeologist: the A14C2H traineeship scheme

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
12.03.2018

We recruited 10 trainees from a wide variety of educational and work backgrounds to see what a career in archaeology could be like for them. 7 continued successfully into the 3 month paid traineeship.

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Meet the people behind the UK’s largest archaeological project

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
02.03.2018

Excavating an overall area of around 350 hectares (1.35 square miles), the team working on the archaeology of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme is made up of a range of specialists from across the UK and Europe.

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Temperance time capsules reveal history of UK’s first ‘sober’ hospital

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
30.10.2017

Two time capsules buried nearly 140 years ago to mark the opening of UK’s first “sober” hospital have been uncovered during the demolition of the derelict National Temperance Hospital by HS2 workers in Euston.

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