Bomber Camp is an upland Romano-British farmstead situated in the limestone country of the Yorkshire Dales, in the vicinity of Malham/Grassington in North Yorkshire. The site consists of a settlement nucleus with associated enclosures and likely co-axial field systems typical of the late Iron Age and Roman-period occupation of the central Pennines, probably active from the 1st through 4th centuries AD.
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Sites of this kind reflect the persistence of native Brigantian pastoral and mixed-farming communities under Roman rule, occupying marginal upland zones beyond major villa estates but within the economic orbit of forts such as Ilkley and Elslack. Bomber Camp is one of a dense cluster of well-preserved earthwork farmsteads in the Craven district that together form one of the most coherent Romano-British rural landscapes in northern England.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey and aerial reconnaissance, showing banked enclosures, hut platforms, and adjoining paddocks; no substantial modern excavation has been published, and dating relies on morphological parallels with excavated sites such as those at Grassington and Chapel House Wood. Specific artefactual evidence from Bomber Camp itself is not recorded in the accessible literature.
Bomber Camp is an upland Romano-British farmstead situated in the limestone country of the Yorkshire Dales, in the vicinity of Malham/Grassington in North Yorkshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Bomber Camp Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure 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 Elslack Roman Fort (8.4 km), Kirk Sink (11.3 km), Beadle Hill Romano-British farmstead (14.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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