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Dr Eleri Cousins
@elericousins.bsky.social
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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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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Nov 22
Offering up a little bronze Lar from Bewcastle to the new social media gods 😅

I’m slowly trying to migrate over my follows from Twitter, but recommendations for whom to follow here very welcome!
Hand wearing a purple glove and holding a bronze Roman statuette of a male figure with a cornucopia. The statuette’s legs are broken at the needs, and its right arm is missing.
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · 2d
This story from @clairemillington.bsky.social about her great grandad and the discovery of the Rudston Venus Mosaic has me completing flipping out…😱🤯🤩 #MosaicMonday
clairemillington.bsky.social Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 2d
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...
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Sep 11
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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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 27
Thank you!! 😍😍😍 That is wonderful to hear - I’ll pass it on to the students too 🥰
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · Aug 25
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 · Aug 25
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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
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 11
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 11
“The Thing from Site WF16”? 😅🫣
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 11
Forget Area 51 - site WF16 is clearly where it’s at!
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 11
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 · Aug 7
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
elericousins.bsky.social Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
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
Professional photograph of lead sling bullets from Roman Ambleside, taken by Durham archaeology students Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin. The bullets are cream coloured. Some are lemon-shaped, and others are more hastily formed blobs.
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Alice-Elizabeth @aliceeliz.bsky.social · Aug 7
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!
elericousins.bsky.social Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
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.
Rowan Colley giving trail tours in Ambleside Roman Fort A group listens to a trail tour by Rowan Colley in Ambleside Roman Fort
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Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social · Aug 6
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
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
Not gonna lie, a significant part of my research and engagement agenda is basically centred on getting to spend time in the Lakes 😅😎
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Dr Hannah Platts @chattyplatty.bsky.social · Aug 7
This looks great - hopefully going up to Ambleside next month, so will be keen to try this out! 👇😃
elericousins.bsky.social Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
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 🏺
Roman Ambleside | Armitt
Explore the history of the Ambleside Roman fort through archaeological objects at The Armitt in this digital trail - Roman Ambleside.
www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
Obviously I’m biased, but they’ve done an amazing job with it - I’m in awe of how well they researched and wrote about the objects! And the route is lovely too, taking in the river and head of the lake on its way to the fort.
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
They’ve done a wonderful route that takes in the river as well on the way to the fort - please do take it and let me know what you think!
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
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.
Rowan Colley giving trail tours in Ambleside Roman Fort A group listens to a trail tour by Rowan Colley in Ambleside Roman Fort
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
You can read The Armitt’s Roman Ambleside digital trail entry on the sling bullets and our knowledge of the so-called Battle of Ambleside here, researched and written by @arcdurham.bsky.social student Isla Mustin

#RomanFortThursday

www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk/lead-bullets
Lead Bullets | Armitt
Discovered dispersed across the Ambleside Roman fort site are these lead bullets. These are evidence that there could have been a Battle of Ambleside.
www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
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
Professional photograph of lead sling bullets from Roman Ambleside, taken by Durham archaeology students Rowan Colley and Isla Mustin. The bullets are cream coloured. Some are lemon-shaped, and others are more hastily formed blobs.
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
They also got the chance to learn about object photography - many of the trail photographs are their own work 🤩 - and get embedded in The Armitt’s ongoing collections audit. Here is Rowan photographing lead sling bullets from The Armitt’s collections…

#RomanFortThursday
Rowan Colley photographing lead sling bullets from the Armitt’s collections
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
Isla and Rowan spent two weeks in Ambleside with me and the Armitt curator, Faye Morissey, researching the objects, designing the trail route, and writing the trail text, as part of their @arcdurham.bsky.social
Advanced Professional Training module

#RomanFortThursday
Rowan Colley, Isla Mustin and Faye Morissey discussing the tombstone of Flavius Fuscinus and Flavius Romanus, held in The Armitt Rowan and Isla taking photographs at Ambleside Roman Fort
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
The trail highlights 13 objects from The Armitt’s collections from Ambleside Roman Fort, introducing visitors to life in a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus and to Roman occupation of the Lake District.

www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk/roman-ambles...

#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #LakeDistrict
View of the principia at Ambleside, under a bright blue sky with Windermere in the background. Two students stand in the principia taking pictures.
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Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social · Aug 7
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 🏺
Roman Ambleside | Armitt
Explore the history of the Ambleside Roman fort through archaeological objects at The Armitt in this digital trail - Roman Ambleside.
www.armittdigitaltrail.co.uk
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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · Aug 6
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 · Aug 6
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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