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MOLA’s CITiZAN project wins National Charity Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage

MOLA team
08.06.2018

We’re delighted to announce the CITiZAN project (the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network) has won the Arts, Culture and Heritage award at the Charity Awards 2018! The award recognises three years of successfully mobilising local communities and training them to monitor and record Britain’s rich but at-risk archaeological sites along over 6000 miles of coastline and tidal foreshore.

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A perfect storm in a tea cup: Archaeology and Britain’s favourite drink

MOLA team
18.04.2018

Today is National Tea Day, where the nation joins together to celebrate the beloved cuppa. But where did our love of tea come from? And what does it have to do with archaeology? Our work is helping to provide some of the answers.

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Are archaeologists putting heritage sites at risk by talking about their work?

MOLA team
19.03.2018

As information sharing becomes ever-easier in our modern digital world: on the internet, across social media, through open-access publications and networks we’re asking: are archaeologists putting heritage at risk by talking about it?

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Ask our Osteologists: Meet Niamh and Elizabeth

Elizabeth Knox and Niamh Carty
08.03.2018

In this blog we speak to Elizabeth and Niamh, two of our dedicated in-house Human Osteologists (human bone specialists) about their fascinating work analysing human remains from our archaeological sites and what this can tell us about women in the archaeological record for International Women’s Day…

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Revealing Canons Ashby: Historic Building Recording uncovers complex development of Elizabethan mansion

Amir Bassir
21.02.2018

We’ve recently completed a programme of historic building recording at Canons Ashby House in Northamptonshire. Hear from Historic Buildings Officer, Amir Bassir, about the fascinating discoveries being made there...

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