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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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Discovering the archaeology of the Great Fire of London

Nigel Jeffries
02.09.2016

In this blog, Nigel Jeffries, Post-Roman Pottery Specialist here at MOLA, tells us what archaeology has revealed about the notorious Great Fire of London.

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Crossrail programme highlight: how do you analyse 3300 skeletons?

MOLA team
08.08.2016

Post-excavation is a requirement of planning so it’s worth developers understanding the process. We demystify post-excavation with this example from the Crossrail programme.

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Archaeology Ambassadors enjoy a site discovery tour at The Stage

MOLA team
07.06.2016

Our Archaeology Ambassadors recently joined us for a site discovery tour at the ongoing excavation of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre.

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Initial findings from excavation at Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre revealed

MOLA team
17.05.2016

Today we unveiled our initial findings from the detailed archaeological excavation of Shakespeare's Curtain theatre, in London’s Shoreditch.

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Excavating Shakespeare’s playhouses: from the Rose to the Curtain

Curtain Theatre team
11.05.2016

In this blog we explore how the excavation of Shakespeare's Rose playhouse shook up the world of archaeology and how it compares to current excavations of the Curtain playhouse in Shoreditch.

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