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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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Explore the Prittlewell princely burial chamber online

MOLA team
09.05.2019

To accompany the brand new research published today about the Prittlewell princely burial, we’ve launched an interactive online chamber where the extraordinary stories behind the objects discovered can be explored in more detail.

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CHATmethod call for papers: practical ways to engage with the contemporary and historical past

MOLA team
17.04.2019

We’re delighted to be hosting the CHAT conference this year and are seeking proposals for papers. CHATmethod will venture beyond theory to directly address the basics of what we do and how we do it.

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Ask the Expert: Iron Age coins in Cambridgeshire

MOLA Headland team
17.04.2019

In this blog, find out from our in-house numismatist, Julian Bowsher, all about a beautiful Iron Age gold coin discovered on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.

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Park Street burial ground and Birmingham’s population expansion

MOLA Headland team
17.04.2019

In 1780 historian William Hutton wrote ‘…instead of the church burying the dead, the dead would have in time buried the church…’. He was talking about the great numbers of people dying in Birmingham, resulting in the walls of St Martin-in-the-Bullring church nearing collapse as the number buried overwhelmed the churchyard. In this blog Mary Ruddy from WSP, Archaeological Consultant on HS2’s Park Street excavation, explores the effects that population growth in 19th century Birmingham had on the city and its inhabitants.

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What should you do if you find a 17th–century ‘witch bottle’?

Nigel Jeffries
16.04.2019

How can 'witch bottles' be identified, and what should you do if one (quite literally) falls down your chimney?

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