This site near Silloth on the Solway Firth forms part of the Cumbrian coastal frontier system — the southward extension of Hadrian's Wall defences along the Irish Sea shore, active from the early 2nd century into the later Roman period. The complex includes palisade ditches, a temporary marching camp, an associated road, and traces of a Romano-British field system, suggesting both military occupation and surrounding agrarian activity.
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The Cumbrian coast was fortified with a continuous chain of milefortlets and towers from Bowness-on-Solway southwards to prevent flanking movement of the Wall by sea, and Silloth lies on this line between the better-known installations at Beckfoot (Bibra) and Maryport (Alauna). The combination here of frontier works, a marching camp, and field systems is unusual in capturing both the military apparatus and the native/military rural economy that supported it.
This site near Silloth on the Solway Firth forms part of the Cumbrian coastal frontier system — the southward extension of Hadrian's Wall defences along the Irish Sea shore, active from the early 2nd century into the later Roman period. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a military camp site from the Roman period in Britain.
Palisade ditches, part of Roman frontier defences along Cumbrian coast, Roman camp & road and part of Romano-British field system, 250m north of Silloth Farm is classified as a Roman military camp — a military 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 Blitterlees (milefortlet 12), part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast (1.8 km), Silloth Golf Course tower 12a, 670m WNW of Blitterlees Farm, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast (2.3 km), Skinburness (2.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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