Caer-Din Ring is a small univallate enclosed settlement situated on the upland borderland of Shropshire/Powys, near the Kerry Ridgeway. The enclosure forms part of a wider relict landscape that includes an adjacent linear earthwork (the "Caer-Din Ring boundary" or Upper Short Ditch is nearby), a round barrow of probable Bronze Age date, and traces of ridge-and-furrow or earlier cultivation; occupation likely spans the later Iron Age into the Romano-British period (roughly 1st century BC to 3rd/4th century AD).
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The site lies in a marginal upland zone on the western frontier of Roman influence, beyond the main villa belt but within the hinterland of forts such as Forden Gaer and the Kerry Ridgeway routeway; settlements of this type represent the persistence of native pastoral farming communities under Roman rule rather than Romanised estates. Its juxtaposition with a probable boundary dyke and a prehistoric barrow makes it a useful palimpsest for studying long-term landscape continuity along the Welsh March.
The site is known almost entirely from earthwork survey rather than excavation; the enclosure bank and ditch, hut platforms, and associated field systems are visible as surface features, but no significant artefactual assemblage has been published and the dating remains inferred from morphology and regional parallels with sites such as Collfry
Caer-Din Ring is a small univallate enclosed settlement situated on the upland borderland of Shropshire/Powys, near the Kerry Ridgeway. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Caer-Din Ring: a small enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, an adjacent ancient field boundary, round barrow and cultivation remains is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Small enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British settlement and adjacent cultivation remains, 450m north west of Cwm Farm (2 km), Brompton Roman fort (8.3 km), Three Roman camps NW of Brompton Mill including tumulus and section of Offa's Dyke (8.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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