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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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The beasties who hitch-hiked to Britain with the Roman conquest

Sander Aerts - Environmental Archaeologist
14.12.2018

In this instalment of our #IckyArchaeology blog series, MOLA Environmental Archaeologist Sander Aerts introduces us to grain pests who made their way to Britain by hitching a lift with the Roman army.

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Our long summer gives us a new perspective on Britain's archaeology

MOLA team
08.10.2018

The record breaking summer of 2018 has been a remarkable one for our aerial survey team who joined Tony Robinson and Channel 4’s Hidden Britain by Drone team to investigate some new parch marks that have appeared over the summer.

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A new perspective on Britains archaeology from our long summer

MOLA team
10.09.2018

The record breaking summer of 2018 has been a remarkable one for our aerial survey team who joined Tony Robinson and Channel 4’s Hidden Britain by Drone team to investigate some new parch marks that have appeared over the summer.

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CITiZAN awarded development funding to pilot new programme

MOLA team
03.07.2018

We’re delighted to announce that our first round application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to grow the CITiZAN project beyond its original three-year programme was successful.

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Ask the expert: Environmental Archaeologist

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
20.03.2018

We have been catching up with a few of the specialists bringing their archaeological skills to the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, based at the MOLA Headland Infrastructure processing base in St Neots.

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