Silver!

Thank you for your patience and support with its long gestation! 😂 I’m super excited to read the other articles as well 🤩

4/ But it also says a lot of things I’ve been thinking about for a long time about how we handle local gods in the Roman world, what we can - and can’t - do with Roman altars and with gods we only know through epigraphy, as well as the (*whispers*) Celtic problem in Roman provincial archaeology 😬…

3/ It represents a few years of my thinking about this guy, the god Cocidius from Hadrian’s Wall, and how religion and military power could intersect on the edges of empire.
(Spoiler alert: I’m not sure he’s a very nice god 😂)

2/ It’s frankly the first thing since my book that I feel really shows how I’d like us to think about and work with religion in the Roman west - and what I like to write when I’m given the time and headspace to do so.

Thank you!! 😍😍😍 That is wonderful to hear - I’ll pass it on to the students too 🥰

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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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“The Thing from Site WF16”? 😅🫣

Forget Area 51 - site WF16 is clearly where it’s at!

Not gonna lie, a significant part of my research and engagement agenda is basically centred on getting to spend time in the Lakes 😅😎

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.

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!

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.