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

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

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.

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

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!

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...

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

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.

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

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…

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...

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 🏺

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"

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 🏺

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...

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...

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

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

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 🤩

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

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

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

Hardknott Roman Fort. @arcdurham.bsky.social students for scale 😎 #RomanFortThursday #LakeDistrict

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

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 🏺

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

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

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...

Yorkshire Museum are raising funds to acquire the Melsonby finds for the region. Here's the link - please do share far and wide! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-m...

Tons of detailed info about the Iron Age Melsonby Hoard’s excavation and ongoing analysis now up on @arcdurham.bsky.social’s webpages. This really is the most amazing thing! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Delighted to be able to share this after 4 years in prep. An exciting collaboration between @arcdurham.bsky.social , Historic England. The British Museum and Yorkshire Museum More info in the links @durham-university.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Incredible Iron Age finds, responsible metal detectorists, and lovely @arcdurham.bsky.social colleagues in the Guardian - what a nice way to start the day! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Blown away by this 14th century manuscript drawing of Stonehenge. It’s only Monday, but I think this will be the coolest thing I see this week. 🏺 📷 The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. CC BY-NC 4.0 parker.stanford.edu/parker/catal...

Well this is the coolest thing I've seen this week. A Romano-British brooch mould from Dymock, Gloucestershire, and a brooch from the same site that *fits in it* 😱🤩 The joys you randomly find while trawling through site reports for something completely different! #FindsFriday 📷Catchpole 2007

Our small road trip crew on my 2023 research visits round northern Britain took the detour to see Bewcastle, its weird fort, and lovely cross. One of my favorite places we visited.

Bewcastle is *such a cool place*. In the same small farmstead there is: -- Roman (1st-4th C) fort -- Saxon (8th C) cross -- Norman (13th C) castle -- 18th C church -- modern farmhouse All it's missing is a Bronze Age barrow & some standing stones.

And just to show the Roman army can throw a curveball when it wants to: Behold the wonky hexagonal fort at Bewcastle within spitting distance of a lovely playing card-shaped marching camp… #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain 🏺

For #ReliefWednesday, two very different suovetaurilia scenes. Trajan preparing to sacrifice on Trajan’s Column, as imperial as it gets. And three jaunty animals on an arch dedicated to Augustus by a client king in the Cottian Alps: blocky, stylised, and, to me, utterly engaging. 1/2 🐖🐏🐂

Delighted to be back at Lancaster today chairing their annual archaeology forum - a truly brilliant lineup this year with everything from archaeology and rewilding to the Birdoswald excavations to Collingwood and Bersu at King Arthur’s Round Table!

It's all fun and games til you're tracking down the interesting pendant article

Well.