Millrigg is a small enclosed Romano-British settlement on the limestone uplands above Crosby Ravensworth in the eastern Lake District (Cumbria), comprising a stone-walled enclosure containing several hut circles and associated yards. It is one of a dense cluster of native farmsteads on this fellside, broadly active in the 1st–4th centuries AD, representing a continuation of indigenous pastoral and mixed farming traditions under Roman rule rather than a Romanised establishment.
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Millrigg forms part of the well-known Crosby Ravensworth/Ewe Close group of native settlements lying within striking distance of the Roman road from Brougham to Low Borrowbridge, illustrating how indigenous Brigantian communities persisted and farmed the Westmorland fells throughout the Roman period. Its significance is essentially as one component of this important relict landscape of native settlement, rather than as an individually exceptional site.
The site is known principally from surface survey and earthwork planning (notably the early 20th-century work of R. G. Collingwood on the Crosby Ravensworth settlements, with later RCHME-style survey), showing a sub-rectangular enclosure wall, hut foundations, and attached paddocks; I am not aware of any modern excavation at Millrigg itself, and there is no significant published artefactual assemblage from the site.
Millrigg is a small enclosed Romano-British settlement on the limestone uplands above Crosby Ravensworth in the eastern Lake District (Cumbria), comprising a stone-walled enclosure containing several hut circles and associated yards. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Millrigg Romano-British enclosed hut circle settlement 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, 450m east of High Borrans (2.8 km), Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement and Romano-British farmstead north west of Tongue House Barn. (4.5 km), Galava (8.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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