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🏺

📣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

Here's Penrith before the motorway/bypass....

The brochure for the Official Opening of the Penrith By-Pass Section of the M6 Motorway on 7 November 1968; an isolated section when completed awaiting the Shap section to the south & onwards to Carlisle in the North. @roads.org.uk @sabre-roads.org.uk @showmeasign.online ↘️ flic.kr/p/2s6B7m8

Everyone has heard of a dig diary, well how about a building survey diary as Tom Addyman gives an update of his and his team's first visit to survey the inner ward of Cockermouth Castle. They've already made intriguing discoveries. Read here to learn more: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/04...

💫History of the Port of London, Race, Religion and Empire: Exhibition Launch 💫 📍 Lloyd's Register Building, 71 Fenchurch Street, London. EC3M 4BS. 🗓️ Friday, May 1st. 5:30pm - 7pm. Get your tickets: ticketpass.org/event/EBVOMP...

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

A couple of talks I'm doing in the next few weeks... On Friday I'm talking about the Lost Pubs of Cockermouth at Cockermouth Library, 2pm (might be fully booked, but I'll be doing it again as a guided walk in the summer with Kirkgate Arts and Heritage)

'Beer on Board' During the Second World War military minds turned to the problem of beer. The MRC's Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social writes on the Allies' plans to launch a floating brewery, as well as Anglo-American tensions over warm beer / chilled lager, at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

'The length of the path isn't really the point. What makes it so special, says [Neil Constable, who led the project for Natural England], is that you can walk to the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and walk beside the sea for as long as you like.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#TraceryTuesday @carlislecathedral.bsky.social east window has some of finest, most complex, flowing decorated late Gothic tracery anywhere: named UK's fave stained glass window Feb 2026. Completed by c.1350 in Cathedral rebuilding after disastrous 1292 fire. 56' x 26' w medieval glass in top part.

Some nice details like the mass dials incorporated into an outside window.

St Michael’s and All Angels, Isel near Cockermouth dates from 1130 and probably stands on an earlier foundation. A Norman chancel arch, windows and door remain and other additions were made in medieval times. A reordering took place in 1878 observing the Norman core of the building.

You can watch the stream on YouTube if you aren't in London...

Still annoyed they didn't find the ring I lost in 1997...

So proud to be part of the Uncovering Roman Carlisle team as we won the award for research project of the year at @CurrentArchaeo live today #Carlisle #Archaeology

After 2 days of non-stop rain, water, water everywhere on today's walk around Buttermere

Please, won't somebody think of this poor cat and how perilously empty his food bowls are? How will he survive the next 2 - 2.5 hours before he is fed again?

Been back looking for the Roman fort at Drumburgh on the Solway with Grampus Heritage. Did we find it? No! But it's definitely here somewhere, we found bits of the vicus settlement next to the fort. So many lovely finds despite the mud, ice and freezing east wind #archaeology #cumbria #hadrianswall

Snowy fells from Latrigg today #cumbria #lakedistrict

Interesting map of ownership of enslaved people - currently dipping into involvement in slave trade in the Irish Sea in the 18th century, especially #Cumbria #blackhistory #history will do a few posts in coming days www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/maps/bri...

#Blackhistory #History #Cumbria Here is a useful summary from the archives relating to Whitehaven as a port involved in the slave trade and highlighting the presence of a black community in Cumbria in the 18th century cumbria.gov.uk/eLibrary/Con...

In 2005 a Museum of London community archaeology project excavated a WW2 bombsite beneath Shoreditch Park in Hackney. I volunteered on the dig and recorded interviews with local residents about their memories of the area in wartime.

On Friday, I'm going to be talking at West Cumbria Archaeology Society - Turning the Tide: Archaeology, Climate Change and Community Action I'll be exploring how communities are coming together to protect and record vulnerable archaeology sites At Allhallows Centre, Fletchertown, 7:30pm

We’re looking for socially engaged practitioners from a range of disciplines (visual and digital arts, film, dance, music, performance, and beyond) who are excited to collaborate with local communities. To download the full commission brief and information on applying: tr.ee/6ArLbX

A66 Creative Commissions – NOW OPEN for applications! Oxford Cotswold Archaeology are thrilled to announce an open call for two Creative Commissions, each worth up to £9,650, inspired by the archaeological discoveries along the A66! 📅 March 1 2026 🔗 tr.ee/6ArLbX

A great opportunity for artists in Cumbria to engage with our archaeological work!

I don't want to sound like a crybaby but if I had become an archaeologists, I'd be doing a lot of crying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New discovery: A wooden structure, identified as river bank protection of the #Roman harbour, has been unearthed in Cologne. www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-... #RomanArchaeology #archaeology 🏺

When you find an incredible advertisement while cataloguing a mid-20th century archive but have no-one to show it to - and then #NationalCheeseLoversDay comes along...

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 🤩

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

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…

Tonight's episode of #DiggingForBritain includes an update from Uncovering Roman Carlisle's excavations at the cricket club. #cumbria

Our Oxford Cotswold Archaeologists (OCA) on the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project are back on #DiggingforBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social tonight at 9pm on BBC 2 👀 @nationalhways.bsky.social @cotswoldarch.bsky.social #archaeology #A66NTP #OCAArchTeam #Cumbria

Featuring the #KelvinWheelies skatepark excavations in episode 1!

Dipper and his snaggle tooth hope you have a snaggle-free week. #proofofcat #fang

Beautiful, freezing, seaside at Allonby yesterday. #Cumbria

General reminder that if you mute the current US president's surname on here, you will miss absolutely zero important news. Even right now. But your timeline will do way less stacking damage to your mental health.

Just catching up with what my fantastic former colleagues are up to @uonenglish.bsky.social - check out this great new development, #Vikings for #Scouts! uonenglish.substack.com/p/vikings-fo...

Sunday's frosty fell walk. #lakedistrict #cumbria #loweswater #crumock

Historians doing place-based and spatial research often want to make use of archaeological work, but it can often feel difficult to find what you want, and difficult to interpret when you do find it. This course is designed to help historians get a foothold in the world of archaeology!

A snippet of timelapsed helm bar action for @lakesstiles.bsky.social Note - quite a subdued nor’easter and my tripod stayed upright this time 😀

Also if you missed this on organ tuning books as local environmental records it’s a nice pairing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Over 24 years, Louise Cocker has captured almost half a million Norfolk Gravestones. ‘As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset… which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England.’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois #MenWithCats

This might be risky...

Ambleside, 1786, painting by Francis Towne, 1739-1816 (Yale Center for British Art).

‘Enjoy the view with me’ overlooking Ennerdale Valley after the rain

This reminds me of my favourite little factoid about hedgehogs. They used to be called 'urchins' in English, so a sea urchin was a sea hedgehog. In Welsh, a hedgehog is a draenog, and a sea urchin is draenog môr... a sea hedgehog.