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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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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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A potted history of Cambridgeshire: Ceramic finds from the A14C2H

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
26.09.2018

MOLA Headland Pottery Specialist Adam Sutton shares his favourite finds from over four tonnes of pottery recovered on A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme so far.

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Ask the Expert: Prehistoric pottery technology

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
30.05.2018

MOLA Headland pottery specialists Julie and Adam share what A14C2H excavations have revealed about prehistoric pottery production and uses in Cambridgeshire.

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Archaeology from the air at Blaise Park, Oxfordshire

MOLA team
19.02.2018

Our drone operators have been out at Blaise Park, Oxfordshire, conducting an archaeological aerial survey. Explore some of the amazing images they've captured and created.

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Conserving fragile Iron Age cauldrons from Glenfield Park

MOLA team
23.11.2017

11 Iron Age cauldrons uncovered in Leicestershire will be worked on by our conservators. CT scans have already revealed glimpses of what they will find.

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