Dr Eleri Cousins
@elericousins.bsky.social
Asst Prof in Roman Archaeology at Durham. Likes all things Roman Britain/Gaul/Germany and Roman religion, with a side helping of art and epigraphy. Also likes trees and hills.
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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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#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/
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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...
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...
www.barpublishing.com
May 29, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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...
www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...
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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!
#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...
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...
www.barpublishing.com
May 21, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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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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
#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...
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...
www.barpublishing.com
May 21, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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
#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...
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...
www.barpublishing.com
May 21, 2026 at 10:52 AM
#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...
www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...
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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...
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...
www.barpublishing.com
May 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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...
www.barpublishing.com/book/communi...
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🏺
#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
📅Deadline for applications: 1st of June 2026.
👉Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#DUresearch
April 17, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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🏺
#RomanBritain #Archaeology #PhD🏺
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A fantastic opportunity to study northern Britain's only Roman town 👇
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/...
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/...
April 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
A fantastic opportunity to study northern Britain's only Roman town 👇
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/...
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/...
April 14, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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/...
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/...
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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.
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 🤩
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…
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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.
I’m glad to be a contributor to this, and it is indeed a lovely book!
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...
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...
January 8, 2026 at 9:44 AM
I’m glad to be a contributor to this, and it is indeed a lovely book!
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…
January 7, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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…
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 🤩
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…
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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 🤩
We’ve been cautious for months about the date, but the OSL is now in, and yes, it’s Roman 🤩
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
I’ve driven by on the motorway dozens of times and had no idea it existed 🤦🏻♀️
#MosaicMonday
January 5, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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
I’ve driven by on the motorway dozens of times and had no idea it existed 🤦🏻♀️
#MosaicMonday
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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
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
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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
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
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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
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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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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 is my first really meaty article to drop post-pandemic and motherhood…🧵🏺
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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 is my first really meaty article to drop post-pandemic and motherhood…🧵🏺
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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 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
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...
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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
📷 my own, taken today
September 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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
📷 my own, taken today
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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
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
August 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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
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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The Medusa room, also a place where you can see the palimpsest of later Mosaics being laid over older designs
#MosaicMonday
The Medusa room, also a place where you can see the palimpsest of later Mosaics being laid over older designs
#MosaicMonday
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The Medusa room, also a place where you can see the palimpsest of later Mosaics being laid over older designs
#MosaicMonday
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.
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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
They did amazing work on the trail I describe in this thread - please do check it out!
www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk/roman-ambles...
#RomanFortThursday
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
#RomanFortThursday
August 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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
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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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!
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.
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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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).
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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...