This site northeast of Burntshield Haugh, in the upland fringes of the South Tyne valley in Northumberland, comprises a Romano-British hut circle settlement with associated field system, overlain and partly disturbed by later lead workings including hushes (gullies created by releasing dammed water to expose ore). The settlement likely dates to the 2nd–4th centuries AD, contemporary with the nearby Hadrian's Wall hinterland, and represents a small native farmstead of the kind common across the North Pennines.
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Such settlements formed the indigenous economic base behind the Wall frontier, supplying agricultural produce and possibly labour to the military zone. The location is particularly notable for its juxtaposition with lead ore workings — the Alston Moor and adjacent orefields were exploited in the Roman period, and while the visible hushes are largely post-medieval, Roman lead extraction in this district is documented by stamped pigs of lead.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation, with visible stone-founded hut circles and conjoined enclosure/field boundaries typical of regional sites like those on Alston Moor. No detailed excavation record is available for this specific settlement, and the chronological relationship between the prehistoric/Romano-British features and the later mining remains has not been resolved on the ground.
This site northeast of Burntshield Haugh, in the upland fringes of the South Tyne valley in Northumberland, comprises a Romano-British hut circle settlement with associated field system, overlain and partly disturbed by later lead workings including hushes (gullies created by releasing dammed water to expose ore). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Hut circle settlement and field system, Romano-British settlement, hush and lead ore works, 750m north east of Burntshield Haugh 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 *Coriosopitum/Coria (12.4 km), Corbridge (Corstopitum) Roman station (12.9 km), Romano-British settlement, 490m SSE of Apperley Dene (13.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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