Huckhoe is a multi-period native settlement in south Northumberland, north-east of Bolam, occupied from the later pre-Roman Iron Age through the Roman period and into the early post-Roman centuries. It began as a timber palisaded enclosure, was subsequently refortified as a small defended settlement with rampart and ditch, and in the Romano-British phase developed into an unenclosed or modified settlement of stone-built round houses typical of the Tyne–Tweed zone.
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The site is significant as one of the relatively few extensively examined native rural settlements in the hinterland of Hadrian's Wall, illustrating the long continuity of indigenous farming communities under Roman rule and their gradual adoption of stone construction and Roman material culture. Its post-Roman occupation also makes it an important reference point for continuity into the 5th–6th centuries in the region.
George Jobey's excavations in 1955–57 traced the sequence from palisade to defended enclosure to stone-built Romano-British settlement with paved yards and round houses, recovering pottery (including samian and coarsewares), querns, and metalwork; a sub-Roman/early medieval phase was indicated by later finds including an Anglo-Saxon-period object. The published results remain the principal source of evidence for the site.
Huckhoe is a multi-period native settlement in south Northumberland, north-east of Bolam, occupied from the later pre-Roman Iron Age through the Roman period and into the early post-Roman centuries. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Huckhoe palisaded enclosure, defended settlement and Romano-British settlement, 550m north east of Bolam West Houses 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 Romano-British settlement and Iron Age defended settlement, 550m north east of Shaftoe Grange (1.9 km), Romano-British farmstead 470m north of Coldwell (8.5 km), Romano-British farmstead and associated annexe, 180m SSE of Herpath House (9.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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