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Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead is a scheduled ancient monument located in Lancashire that dates to the Romano-British period. The site comprises the remains of a rural settlement typical of the agricultural communities that occupied northern Britain during the Roman occupation and its aftermath. The farmstead represents evidence of Romano-British settlement patterns in the upland regions of Lancashire, where mixed farming communities maintained local production systems. Archaeological survey and investigation have identified structural remains and artefactual material consistent with domestic occupation spanning the later Iron Age and Romano-British periods.
Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009487. View the official record →
Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead is a scheduled ancient monument located in Lancashire that dates to the Romano-British period.
Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1009487.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Twist Castle Romano-British farmstead (0.4 km), Two Romano-British farmsteads known as Ring Stones (1.1 km), Ring cairn on Slipper Hill (1.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.