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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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Thames Discovery Programme awarded £250k by National Lottery Heritage Fund for two-year ‘River Recoveries’ project

MOLA team
30.06.2021

We’re excited to share that the Thames Discovery Programme (TDP) has been awarded £250,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to support ‘River Recoveries’, a two-year project to revitalise the TDP, and shape it to succeed long into the future.

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MOLA appoints two new Trustees to the Board

MOLA team
23.06.2021

We are delighted to announce the appointment of two new Trustees to our Board: Cyprian Broodbank and Shahina Farid.

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Unique burial thought to be rare direct evidence of slavery in Roman Britain

MOLA team
03.06.2021

We have been researching the skeleton of an adult male found buried in a ditch, secured at the ankles with a locked set of iron fetters. This is the first discovery of a burial wearing this form of restraint from Roman Britain, raising questions about who this person was and why they were shackled.

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Bloomberg writing tablets displayed for the first time in ‘Nero: the man behind the myth’ at The British Museum

MOLA team
26.05.2021

Three Roman writing tablets are set to go on display in the upcoming British Museum exhibition ‘Nero: the man behind the myth’, two of which have never before been shown to the public.

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Applications open for 2021-22 Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships

MOLA team
06.05.2021

Applications are now open for one of two opportunities for students to undertake their PhD at a UK university co-supervised by members of the MOLA team, as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.

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