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Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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!

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Kayt Hawkins @kayth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

#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...

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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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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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...

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Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain - BAR Publishing

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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🏺

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Roman Scotland @romanscotland.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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/...

Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work

View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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…

My hand holding two conjoined, partially finished whetstones. In the background is a muddy river foreshore.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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 🤩

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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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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

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

Close up of central panel of Bacchus and Ariadne, surrounded by six hexagonal panels of female portraits and theatre masks

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Dept of Classics & Archaeology, Nottingham @uonclassarch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

Poster for a free webinar - the Joan Pye annual lecture to be presented by Alex Mullen. November 26th, 7pm. Hosted by Cotswold archaeology and the Roman Research Trust. The image is of lots of people in togas in a market place.

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Oooh. Reading this RIGHT NOW

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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…🧵🏺

Side on view of the two silver plaques to Cocidius from Bewcastle Roman fort

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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

View of the Whin Sill with Crag Lough in the distance. In the foreground, black cows are lying in a field. Much of the sky is blue but with big clouds floating around and a definite feel of possible rain.

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

Stone carved to look like a face - but with definite alien/horror movie ghost vibes.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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Alice-Elizabeth @aliceeliz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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!

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Dr Hannah Platts @chattyplatty.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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 🏺

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Roman Ambleside | Armitt

Explore the history of the Ambleside Roman fort through archaeological objects at The Armitt in this digital trail - Roman Ambleside.

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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Spot the Roman bit… (Entablature fragment from the Sanctuaire du Cigognier at Avenches, Switzerland, built into the medieval church Ste-Marie-Madeleine. 📷 My own ) 🏺 #archaeology

View of the exterior corner of the church of Ste-Marie-Madeleine in Avenches. Most of the church is built of greyish brown stone, and the exterior is plain. But at the bottom corner an extravagant piece of carved Roman masonry in white limestone sticks out, with coffered cornices and egg-and-dart motifs on the modillion.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

If you’re in the South Lakes tomorrow, head to Ambleside Roman Fort for the @nationaltrust.org.uk and The Armitt’s free #FestivalOfArchaeology open day! Our amazing @arcdurham.bsky.social students will be doing trail tours as part of the festivities - and there’s a ballista, apparently…

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Ambleside Roman Fort open day 2025

<p>Get hands-on at Ambleside Roman Fort on this special open day including stalls, walk and talks, demonstrations and reenactments.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This…is the most exciting news I have seen in a long time 😳 Actually squeaking with joy 🤩 I basically tithed to the Topping & Co in St Andrews when I lived there - I guess if this one is a train ride away I’ll still have a chance of keeping at least some of my money! 😅 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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'Country's largest independent bookshop' set to open in York

Councillors approve plans for Topping & Company Bookseller’s new city centre bookshop.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Scrappy altars are my favourite. Behold this lovely little wonky god in a niche - and highly diagonal lettering 😂 - on this altar to Mars from Housesteads fort on Hadrian’s Wall. Adorable 🥰 RIB 1592, now in Chesters Museum.📷 mine romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions... #EpigraphyTuesday 🏺

Small Roman altar, with a relief of a roughly carved cloaked male figure standing in a niche. Below is a worn inscription. Both the figure and the inscription are noticeably at a slant. The modern museum base reads “Altar to the holy god Mars, set up by Vi…anus”, RIB 1592 from Housesteads. The altar sits on a shelf, with other carved stones visible to either side.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Amusing myself while reading about seals by imagining the other kind of seals. "Seal boxes" "Inscribed seals" "Neither Greek nor Latin was wholly dominant among seals"

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

The joys of walking into a church and instantly spotting a Roman inscription 🥰🤩😱 (RIB 757, dedication to Septimius Severus from the fort at Brough-under-Stainmore) romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions... #RomanBritain 🏺

Picture of a church entranceway with a Roman inscription built into the wall

Photo of RIB 757 in the wall of the entranceway of the church at Brough, with a bench in front of it . IMP CAESA[R] very clearly visible in the first line.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Are you a student - or do you know one - who has done excellent research on Hadrian’s Wall in the last year? The 2025 Breeze & Dobson Award is now open - deadline July 4th. Please share widely with anyone eligible! #RomanBritain #RomanFortThursday 🏺 hadrianswallcountry.co.uk/explore/bree...

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Breeze & Dobson Award 2025 - Hadrian's Wall Country

The Hadrian’s Wall Partnership Board invites nominations and self-nominations for the 2025 Breeze & Dobson Award.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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Breeze & Dobson Award 2025 - Hadrian's Wall Country

The Hadrian’s Wall Partnership Board invites nominations and self-nominations for the 2025 Breeze & Dobson Award.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

“I’m not worried, YOU’RE worried.” My favourite angsty face pot. From Roman Carlisle, in the collections at Tullie. #FindsFriday

Male head modelled in high relief on the neck and mouth of a broken flagon. His bulging eyes stare slightly off to one side and his downward mouth looks alarmed and concerned. His eyebrows, eyelashes, and beard and moustache are picked out in short incised lines. He has an appliqué wreath or crown of disks around his brow.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I swear, Durham is actually a painting, not a place. 🧐

View from the Prebends Bridge in Durham. Green woods line the River Wear, with the towers of the cathedral rising above, lit up golden in the evening light.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

THESE WERE INCREDIBLE. Just *look* at this model of the estate of Julia Felix by one of our @arcdurham.bsky.social students, Eleanor Paxton 🤯 ALL the projects were so well-researched and with such creativity on the part of all the students! Pedagogy gold star to @carolinebarron.bsky.social 🤩

Close up photo of a corner of a foam model of the garden of Julia Felix, placed upon a plan of the rest of the site. Astounding recreation of brickwork and plastered walls using paint, sand, and other materials to create texture and detail.

Top down view of a foam model of the garden of Julia Felix, placed upon a plan of the rest of the site. Astounding recreation of brickwork and plastered walls using paint, sand, and other materials to create texture and detail.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A wee Samian spindle whorl from Ambleside Roman Fort for #FindsFriday I love objects made from recycled bits of pottery 🤩 Such wonderful examples of reuse and the many lives an artefact can have! 📷 my own

Half of a spindle whorl made from red Samian pottery sits in the palm of a hand wearing a white latex glove

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The massive (4m+) standing remains of the bathhouse at Ravenglass fort. The fort stands on the Cumbrian coast, at the far end of one of the main Roman routes through the Lake District. @arcdurham.bsky.social students for scale. #RomanFortThursday

Large standing remains of Roman masonry, with two students standing in front of complete doorway spaces

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hardknott Roman Fort, 2nd c. AD Funny how the worst places to have probably been stationed are now the nicest to visit. #RomanFortThursday

View of the interior of Hardknott fort with sweeping views down into Eskdale on a brilliantly sunny day.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Ambleside Roman Fort for #RomanFortThursday. On one side the fells…

View of the remains of the praetorium, principia, and granary at Ambleside on a perfect cloudless day, with Lake District fells behind

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In the Lakes this week with amazing @arcdurham.bsky.social second-year students designing a digital trail through Roman Ambleside for the Armitt Museum. Apparently this counts as work. #Archaeology 🏺

Two students stand taking photos in the sacellum of the headquarters building of Ambleside Roman Fort. It is a brilliantly sunny day and Lake Windermere is visible in the background.

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I have no idea who annotated this corrigenda slip in this site report I just opened - but I’d quite like them to sit next to me at every bad conference paper from now on. #HillfortsWednesday

Photo of corrigenda slip in S.C. Stanford’s report “Midsummer Hill - an Iron Age hillfort in the Malverns”. Several typewritten corrections of typos by the author. Underneath, a handwritten annotation in blue pen: “for 470 B.C. read “wishful thinking”

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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

First bluebells! 🤩 And so begins the best time of year…

Close-up of a small clump of bluebells, with a wooded hill ascending in the background against a patch of brilliant blue sky.

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Fully funded 4 year PhD with me, Dr Olly Davis at Cardiff University, and Dr Mark Lewis & Evan Chapman at Amgueddfa Cymru, on Addressing the Roman colonial story in South East Wales. Come & rewrite narratives of Roman Wales with us in partnership with CAER heritage: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Addressing the Roman Colonial Story in South-East Wales / Mynd i'r afael â'r Stori Drefedigaethol Rufeinig yn ne-ddwyrain Cymru at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Addressing the Roman Colonial Story in South-East Wales / Mynd i'r afael â'r Stori Drefedigaethol Rufeinig yn ne-ddwyrain Cymru at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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