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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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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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MOLA archaeologists to conduct first excavation at Sutton Hoo Royal Burial Ground in almost 30 years

MOLA team
24.05.2018

We’re really excited to be involved in a transformational project at the world-famous Anglo-Saxon site with the National Trust.

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Skills, archaeology and economic growth

MOLA team
23.05.2018

Next month our CEO Janet Miller is chairing the skills session at the Oxford Cambridge Corridor Economic Growth Conference 2018. A panel of influential speakers is coming together to ask: How do we develop the skills needed to grow the economy? What new skills do we need?

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Interview with Dr Carole Fry, Conservation Practitioner, Architectural Historian and founding Director of AHC Consultants, on the housing crisis

MOLA team
23.05.2018

Dr Carole Fry touches on some of the pressing issues discussed at our housing crisis panel debate and gives her view of how the historic environment can positively influence new housing

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Revolutionary Romans and technology on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
16.05.2018

Archaeologists working on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme have unearthed evidence of 40 early Roman (1st and 2nd century) kilns and tonnes of domestic Roman pottery, a nationally significant discovery.

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