This site, located in the East Northamptonshire/Rutland borderland near the upper reaches of the Welland or Nene tributaries, represents a multi-period rural complex with activity spanning the Middle/Late Iron Age into the Roman period (broadly c. 100 BC – 4th century AD). The combination of a ritual focus with settlement enclosures and linear boundary ditches is characteristic of the dispersed farmstead-and-shrine pattern typical of the East Midlands clay belt.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
It would have functioned as a small agricultural community within the rural hinterland of the civitas of the Corieltavi, with the ritual element suggesting a local cult focus — possibly a rural shrine of the sort common in this region (comparable to Brigstock or Collyweston). Such sites illustrate the persistence of native religious practice within an otherwise unremarkable working landscape.
This site, located in the East Northamptonshire/Rutland borderland near the upper reaches of the Welland or Nene tributaries, represents a multi-period rural complex with activity spanning the Middle/Late Iron Age into the Roman period (broadly c. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Iron Age and Roman ritual site, settlement, enclosures and linear ditched features, 500m East of Swallow Hill Farm 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 Medbourne (3.6 km), Drayton (6.3 km), West Langton (7.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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