This is a dispersed enclosed settlement of Late Iron Age and Romano-British date located on the Yorkshire Wolds, in the hinterland between the Roman roads connecting Malton (Derventio) and the East Yorkshire coast. The site appears to have been occupied from the 1st century BC through into the Roman period, likely continuing the indigenous "Ladder Settlement" tradition characteristic of the Wolds, in which strings of rectilinear enclosures, trackways and small fields formed loosely linked agricultural communities.
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Such settlements represent the bulk of the rural population of Roman East Yorkshire, supplying agricultural surplus (grain and stock) to the military and urban markets at Malton/Norton and beyond, while showing limited material Romanisation compared to villa-based settlement further south. They are significant for understanding the persistence of native Parisian/Brigantian social and economic patterns under Roman rule.
Little specific excavation evidence is recorded for this particular site; it is known primarily through aerial photography and cropmark survey, which reveal ditched enclosures, trackways and associated field systems typical of Wolds ladder settlements. Surface finds in this region commonly include Iron Age and Roman coarsewares, Huntcliff-type and greyware sherds, and occasional querns, but no detailed assemblage from this specific locus is in the public record.
This is a dispersed enclosed settlement of Late Iron Age and Romano-British date located on the Yorkshire Wolds, in the hinterland between the Roman roads connecting Malton (Derventio) and the East Yorkshire coast. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Late Iron Age and Roman period dispersed enclosed settlement 230m south east of Quartons Gardens 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 Roman signal station at Scarborough (6.1 km), Roman signal station, Carr Naze (10.2 km), Romano-British settlement (12.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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