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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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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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Old Maps, New Tricks: Georectifying London’s Historic Maps

Sarah Jones - Head of Geomatics
20.09.2018

Head of Geomatics Sarah Jones reveals how our geomatics team georectified 9 historic maps for the Layers of London project, and created invaluable GIS datasets and ArcGIS models in the process.

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Excavating Iturissa: Teaching new skills in the Basque Country, Spain

Claudia Tommasino
17.09.2018

Each summer, our experts have been travelling out to the town of Auritz/Burguete in the Basque region of Spain to work alongside Aranzadi’s team and train their students and volunteers. In this blog, hear from our Fieldwork Trainer, Claudia Tommasino, about a summer sharing skills and making new discoveries on the continent.

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From dig to desk: the story of the A14C2H archaeology programme is just beginning

MOLA Headland Infrastructure team
13.09.2018

As the excavations on one of the UK’s largest ever archaeological projects draw to a close, we now start the huge challenge of pulling the results together, to paint a more detailed picture of over 6000 years of history.

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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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