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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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Revealing the hidden history of Knole

MOLA team
10.06.2019

Knole is one of England’s greatest historic house. A new book Knole Revealed, includes hidden historical gems that we uncovered as part of the National Trust’s Inspired by Knole project.

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The artists of St James’s burial ground revealed

MOLA Headland team
05.06.2019

Robert Hartle, Senior Archaeologist for MOLA Headland Infrastructure is currently working on the archaeological excavation of the 18th and 19th century St James’s burial ground at Euston for Costain Skanska Joint Venture (CSjv) on behalf of HS2. In this blog Robert delves into the burial ground’s artistic connections and what the team is uncovering.

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Assessing human remains during an archaeological excavation: What can we learn?

MOLA Headland team
29.05.2019

Don Walker is one of the Senior Osteologists undertaking archaeological excavation and research at Park Street burial ground on behalf of LM for HS2. In this blog he explores what happens on site and what we can learn from excavating and assessing human remains.

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MOLA to host PhD students in Collaborative Doctoral Partnership

Emma Dwyer
23.05.2019

From October 2020 MOLA will be supporting three new research students a year to study for a PhD at a UK university., through the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership.

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Rare Roman coin depicting ill-fated emperor Laelianus identified on A14C2H

MOLA Headland team
20.05.2019

Our archaeologists have uncovered an incredibly rare coin featuring a Roman emperor who reigned for only two months during the post-excavation work on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme. In this blog, we explore the significance of this coin.

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