By: MOLA Headland
Digging into the Digital A14
June 5, 2023On the National Highways A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement scheme, we excavated hundreds of acres of land, recovered thousands of artefacts, and took over 100,000 photographs – but where does all the information go? The answer is archives! A site archive is one of the most important parts of any…
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Geoarchaeology and environmental archaeology in action: the story of the A14 landscape and vegetation from the Bronze Age to the Early Medieval
March 21, 2023Archaeology isn’t just about people, it’s also about places. In fact, one thing that makes archaeology so important is that it can tell us about how entire landscapes looked in the past. It helps us understand why people lived where they did, the food they were eating, the materials they…
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Free talk: Forget thee? No!: Commemorative Finds at St James’s Burial Ground
March 16, 2023Date: Sunday 16th April, 1:30-2:30pm Location: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL Cost: Free (booking essential) Book your place HERE From clay pipes to pocket watches, hair combs to slippers, hundreds of personal items were found during HS2 excavations at St James’s Burial Ground, near Euston. These…
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Free workshop: Forget thee? No!: Commemorative Finds at St James’s Burial Ground
March 16, 2023Date: Sunday 16th April (various times) Location: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL Cost: Free (booking essential) Book your place HERE From clay pipes to pocket watches, hair combs to slippers, hundreds of personal items were found during HS2 excavations at St James’s Burial Ground, near Euston….
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Free workshop: Fittings for the dead: The coffin furniture of St James’s Burial Ground
March 16, 2023Date: Tuesday 11th April (various times) Location: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL Cost: Free (booking essential) Book your place HERE In the 18th and 19th centuries, Londoners had a number of options for their burials, based on what they could afford. From plain cheap coffin for paupers,…
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Free Talk: Fittings for the dead: The coffin furniture of St James’s Burial Ground
March 16, 2023Date: Tuesday 11th April, 10-11am Location: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL Cost: Free (booking essential) Please book your place HERE In the 18th and 19th centuries, Londoners had a number of options for their burials, based on what they could afford. From plain cheap coffin for…
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Free Exhibition: Stories of St James’s Burial Ground
March 8, 2023Location: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL Dates: 15th March – 23rd April 2023 (excluding 2nd-9th April) Cost: Free Please visit www.sjp.org.uk/visit-us for opening hours and accessibility information A parrakeet, a miniature portrait, and a very unusual pair of trousers – just some of the surprising discoveries made…
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The Bar Hill Comb
March 1, 2023Warning: this blog post contains images and discussion of human remains. When archaeologists working on the National Highways A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon scheme discovered a fragment of a comb, they knew they had found something unusual. But it took months of research by MOLA’s Finds Specialist, Michael Marshall, and Osteology…
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Huntingdon East, hidden in train sight – the archaeology of a forgotten station
January 3, 2023During our excavations on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon National Highways scheme, we have found some amazing archaeology, including the earliest physical evidence for beer brewing and flint tools from more than 4000 years ago. But archaeology isn’t just about the ancient past. In fact, it helps us understand the…
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Pigs Teeth and Iron Nails – Masters students research the A14 past landscapes
November 9, 2022In 2021 Saskia Brogan and Katie Manby were awarded MA Scholarships for Reading University, funded by National Highways. This included placements working with the MOLA Headland team on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme, where they took part in a wide range of post-excavation work. Now they have both…
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