Bean Burn 2 is one of a cluster of Roman temporary marching camps identified in the upper South Tyne valley in Northumberland, near the line of the Maiden Way running north from Kirkby Thore towards Carvoran on Hadrian's Wall. As a temporary camp it would have been an earth-and-turf rampart with internal ditch, used to shelter troops on the march for a night or a few days, most plausibly dating to campaigning activity in the late 1st or 2nd century AD, though no firm dating evidence is published.
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Its significance lies in marking a stopping point on a major north–south military route through the Pennines, contributing — along with the neighbouring Bean Burn 1 camp — to our understanding of troop movements between the Stainmore/Eden corridor and the Wall zone. Note that despite the Pleiades classification, temporary camps are military rather than civilian sites.
The camp is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork survey, with cropmark or low earthwork traces of its rampart and ditch defining the enclosure; no significant excavation has been published, and finds, internal features, and precise dimensions remain effectively unrecorded in the public literature.
Bean Burn 2 is one of a cluster of Roman temporary marching camps identified in the upper South Tyne valley in Northumberland, near the line of the Maiden Way running north from Kirkby Thore towards Carvoran on Hadrian's Wall. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp is classified as a Roman site — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp (0.2 km), Seatsides 2 Roman temporary camp (0.5 km), Twice Brewed Roman temporary camp (0.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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