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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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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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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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Talk: Oats and Beans and Barley Grow (St Neots Local History Society)
October 31, 202219.11.2022 2:15pm The Priory Centre, Priory Ln, St Neots, PE19 2BH St Neots Local History Society (members free, visitors £4 at the door) Over 9000 botanical samples were collected during the excavations on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme, producing evidence of agricultural change, diet, bread and even…
Read MoreFamily Archaeology at The Priory (St Neots)
October 10, 202226.10.2022 Priory Ln, St Neots, Saint Neots PE19 2BH Free Family Event, drop in between 1pm-3pm! Meet MOLA archaeologists and find out all about our excavations on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme (A14C2H). There will be hands-on activities and finds from the excavations!
Read MoreArchaeology Masterclass: understanding human skeletal remains
October 10, 202226.10.2022 (1.00 – 3.00pm) St Neots Museum, 8 New St, Saint Neots PE19 1AE What can skeletal remains found during the A14 excavations tell us about the lives of people in Cambridgeshire over thousands of years? Join us at St Neots Museum, for a workshop led by MOLA osteology experts,…
Read MoreLife, Death & Magic in Cambridgeshire
August 30, 2022Public Talk: Life, Death & Magic in Cambridgeshire: Stories from the Later Prehistoric and Roman Artefacts found on the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon excavations Tuesday 13th September: 19:30 The Octagon, St Mary’s and All Saints Church, Church St, Willingham, Cambridge CB24 5HS From obscure objects to high end factory waste, fashionably…
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Murder they croaked? Investigating a prehistoric frog mystery on the A14
July 8, 2022Archaeology is not just the study of past human activity. It also looks at the animals that inhabited ancient landscapes. During excavations on the National Highways A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road Improvement Scheme we retrieved more than four tonnes of animal bones, which we are now studying in detail. Our…
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Volunteers reveal the lives of six Londoners buried in St James’s Burial Ground
March 3, 2022People from all walks of life were buried at St James’s Burial Ground, rich and poor, young and old. The cemetery was used from 1790 to 1843, during a time when London was expanding quickly. It struggled to deal with London’s increasing population and closed to new burials earlier than…
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