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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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New CITiZAN Discovery Programmes awarded National Lottery funding to target regions where coastal archaeology is vulnerable to extreme erosion

MOLA team
09.01.2019

CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, has been awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish six Discovery Programmes in areas where the risk to intertidal and coastal archaeology is extreme.

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Recent discoveries from conservation of the Glenfield Park cauldrons

MOLA team
20.12.2018

Our conservation team are well underway in their project to meticulously excavate, record and preserve the remains of a remarkable group of eleven Iron Age cauldrons found by a team from ULAS at Glenfield Park.

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The Dzhangal Archaeology Project: an archaeological perspective on modern migration

Janet Miller
18.12.2018

MOLA's Chief Executive, Janet Miller, talks about the Dzhangal Archaeology Project, and why she believes archaeologists should be discussing and engaging with difficult issues like modern migration.

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What on earth is geophysics?

MOLA team
06.12.2018

Geophysical survey is often stipulated by local authority archaeologists as an integral part of archaeological site investigations in planning conditions. But what is geophysical survey and why use it?

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Medieval St Paul’s Cathedral destroyed in the Great Fire to be reconstructed in virtual reality

MOLA team
16.11.2018

We are collaborating on a project led by Professor John Wall of NCSU, to bring the Medieval St Paul's Cathedral back to life.

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