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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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Cambridgeshire Ice Age giants uncovered on the A14C2H

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
22.10.2018

Excavations for the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme have revealed partial remains belonging to extinct megafauna including woolly mammoth and woolly rhino, thought to be at least 100,000 years old.

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What does the team of tomorrow look like?

MOLA team
10.10.2018

What does the team of tomorrow look like? Meet some of MOLA and Keltbray's archaeology and construction specialists and see how we've been developing our teams.

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Archaeological finds: A human connection to the Cambridgeshire landscape through time

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
10.10.2018

During the excavation phase of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme, we uncovered many unique and fascinating objects that reveal human connections to the Cambridgeshire landscape through time.

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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 potted history of Cambridgeshire: Ceramic finds from the A14C2H

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
26.09.2018

MOLA Headland Pottery Specialist Adam Sutton shares his favourite finds from over four tonnes of pottery recovered on A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme so far.

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