Downloaded to read. The amazing @elericousins.bsky.social was really helpful discussing Roman religion in northern England when I was writing 'Roman Life at Hadrian's Wall'. www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...

Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain - BAR Publishing

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital platform. This volume kick-starts debate on the future of ar...

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It was such a pleasure to work on this book with such a fantastic group of people. I had a few copies at RAC/TRAC hot off the presses, and they've all sold within the first two hours!

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#OpenAccess publication day! I am so proud to have been a part of getting this into the world. I hope it will launch a lot of exciting conversations about Roman Britain and how we can contribute to wider archaeological debates @barpublishing.bsky.social 🧵 1/ www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...

Ooh this looks so good! Reading the table of contents and seeing so many people who's work I very much enjoy & respect - what a volume on #roman #archaeology #romanbritain

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#OpenAccess publication day! I am so proud to have been a part of getting this into the world. I hope it will launch a lot of exciting conversations about Roman Britain and how we can contribute to wider archaeological debates @barpublishing.bsky.social 🧵 1/ www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...

#OpenAccess publication day! I am so proud to have been a part of getting this into the world. I hope it will launch a lot of exciting conversations about Roman Britain and how we can contribute to wider archaeological debates @barpublishing.bsky.social 🧵 1/ www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...

Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain - BAR Publishing

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital platform. This volume kick-starts debate on the future of ar...

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Open access publication klaxon! I was really honoured to be asked to write a response chapter in Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain. It is SO GOOD. www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...

Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain - BAR Publishing

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on the BAR Digital platform. This volume kick-starts debate on the future of ar...

barpublishing.com

Come work with me and the amazing Frances McIntosh on disentangling late Roman Corbridge! Applications welcome from different career stages and backgrounds - full details in the link below. #RomanBritain #Archaeology #PhD🏺

Durham Archaeology@arcdurham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣Applications now open for a fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship at Durham on ‘Corbridge Roman Town: Economy and Society on the Edges of Roman Britain’, in partnership with English Heritage! 📅Deadline for applications: 1st of June 2026. 👉Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #DUresearch

A fantastic opportunity to study northern Britain's only Roman town 👇

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳 This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳 This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Days when the headlines actually don't over-sell the findings. Both the excavated hoard-with-carnyx and this whetstone industry give us so much more information about local histories.

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I know we’ve all got our eyes on that carnyx 👀, but meanwhile in Sunderland we’ve got OVER 800(!) Roman whetstones and seemingly the largest whetstone production site ever found 🤯 We’ve been cautious for months about the date, but the OSL is now in, and yes, it’s Roman 🤩

I’m glad to be a contributor to this, and it is indeed a lovely book!

Adrián Maldonado@archaeonado.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hadrian’s Wall and its Trees, ed. by David J. Breeze @archaeopress.bsky.social Just flipped through a copy of this, and it's rather beautiful. A celebration of life inspired by the death of a tree. All short contributions, from the academic to the poetic www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

It was really exciting to visit this site and advise on the material - it’s just LITTERED with Roman whetstones at all stages of production. So many questions remain about who was making them (and who for!) But over 800 whetstones (so far…) is a scale like nothing we’ve seen before…

Durham University@durham.ac.uk · 8mo ago

Experts from our Department of Archaeology have helped uncover a Roman industrial hub on the banks of the River Wear, highlighting the role of North East England in Roman Britain’s sophisticated manufacturing & trade network. Read more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... #archaeology #RomanBritain

I know we’ve all got our eyes on that carnyx 👀, but meanwhile in Sunderland we’ve got OVER 800(!) Roman whetstones and seemingly the largest whetstone production site ever found 🤯 We’ve been cautious for months about the date, but the OSL is now in, and yes, it’s Roman 🤩

Roman industrial site unearthed on North East riverbank rewrites region's history

Compelling evidence of a Roman industrial hub uncovered on the banks of a North East river has rewritten archaeologists' understanding of the…

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Delightfully unexpected treat of a visit to the site museum at Vallon (Switzerland) yesterday and its stunning mosaic of Bacchus and Ariadne 🤩 I’ve driven by on the motorway dozens of times and had no idea it existed 🤦🏻‍♀️ #MosaicMonday

Don’t miss Prof Alex Mullen’s free webinar on November 26th at 7pm! She’ll be presenting the Joan Pye lecture on ‘Tales from the Tablets: recovering the voices of Roman Britain’. #archaeology #classics #roman 🏺 Book your tickets here: tinyurl.com/Romanvoices

New issue of Religion in the Roman Empire Vol. 11, No.2 (2025) www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/issue/rel... @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social The Epigraphy of Roman Religion: Problems and Solutions @ericorlin.bsky.social @elericousins.bsky.social

Oooh. Reading this RIGHT NOW

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Publication day! “What’s in a name? Cocidius and the Epigraphy of Local Deities in the Roman Empire” now out in Religion in the Roman Empire special issue edited by @ericorlin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1628/rre-... 🥰 This is my first really meaty article to drop post-pandemic and motherhood…🧵🏺

Publication day! “What’s in a name? Cocidius and the Epigraphy of Local Deities in the Roman Empire” now out in Religion in the Roman Empire special issue edited by @ericorlin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1628/rre-... 🥰 This is my first really meaty article to drop post-pandemic and motherhood…🧵🏺

This story from @clairemillington.bsky.social about her great grandad and the discovery of the Rudston Venus Mosaic has me completing flipping out…😱🤯🤩 #MosaicMonday

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺@clairemillington.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It's the third time this mosaic has popped up for me this week - was reading @elericousins.bsky.social chapter about it and also chatting to mum about the discovery (her mum's dad was the labourer. He was out on his bike when the farmer had ploughed up a few tesserae and was thinking of ploughing...

Hadrian’s Wall and the Whin Sill viewed from Steel Rigg. With some lucky resident cows who I hope enjoy the view 🐄 📷 my own, taken today

Having a nephew to occupy last week gave me just the excuse i needed to revisit @romanpalace.bsky.social Now in some ways they need no introduction, they're kinda living legends round these parts but sometimes its nice to have other people say nice things about you so: thread time 🧵👇 #MosaicMonday

🧵/10 The Medusa room, also a place where you can see the palimpsest of later Mosaics being laid over older designs #MosaicMonday

Okay, the Levantine Neolithic is officially scaring the pants off me.

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · last yr.

Like stone faces? Check out these Epipalaeolithic and #Neolithic examples from: 😑 Nahal Ein Gev II 🤨 Jerf el Ahmar 😏 WF16 Found throughout the entire Levant, they may indicate a tradition of making stone faces shared over 800km! Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

I still can’t get over how good this photo of Roman lead bullets taken by @arcdurham.bsky.social students Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin is 🥰. They did amazing work on the trail I describe in this thread - please do check it out! www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk/roman-ambles... #RomanFortThursday

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · last yr.

And here is the final photo for the trail itself 😱 Recent work by Edinburgh Uni and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social suggests the sling bullets, all found scattered extramurally, are evidence for at least one battle outside the fort between the Roman army and the local population. #RomanFortThursday

Had an amazing time with The Armitt, and @nattrustarch.bsky.social . We loved meeting everyone who came along for the tours and got some fantastic feedback!

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · last yr.

The trail was officially launched last weekend as part of The Armitt and @nattrustarch.bsky.social’s Ambleside Roman Fort open day for the #FestivalOfArchaeology, with Rowan and @aliceeliz.bsky.social giving trail tours to the public, supported by an @ics.bsky.social public engagement grant.

A (very short) look at some of what I’m working on during my fellowship at St John’s: www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/res...

Dr Carolyn La Rocco: Female patronage in the late Roman and post-Roman west

In this article, Dr Carolyn La Rocco (CDRF in Classics and Ancient History) discusses her research on female patronage in Late Antiquity (c. 250-750 CE).

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This looks great - hopefully going up to Ambleside next month, so will be keen to try this out! 👇😃

Dr Eleri Cousins@elericousins.bsky.social · last yr.

So delighted to announce the official launch of The Armitt’s new digital trail through Roman Ambleside! The trail was developed by our fabulous @arcdurham.bsky.social 2nd-years Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin, with initial work by LU student Bastien Hamilton… 🧵 #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 🏺

So delighted to announce the official launch of The Armitt’s new digital trail through Roman Ambleside! The trail was developed by our fabulous @arcdurham.bsky.social 2nd-years Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin, with initial work by LU student Bastien Hamilton… 🧵 #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 🏺

I'm knackered after a full day of travelling yesterday, so let's do this. One like, one curse tablet.

A horned god with spear and shield - a local god from Roman Maryport in Cumbria. The relief is now part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum at Maryport. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #SenhouseRomanMuseum

My former colleagues at Lancaster are facing grave redundancy threats: 1 in 4 jobs are at risk, after already enduring hugely increased workload through staff departures and voluntary severance and major admin and curriculum changes over the last two years. Please consider signing/supporting them.

Katie McDonough@kmcdono.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us in signing and sharing this petition to prevent layoffs of over 400 people (both academic & professional services staff) at Lancaster University. We are all at risk and it's a scary time.