This is a multi-period rural settlement on the Solway Plain in Cumbria, roughly 10 km south-west of Carlisle and just south of Hadrian's Wall's western coastal defences. The site comprises a prehistoric (probably Iron Age) enclosure and associated trackway overlain or succeeded by a Romano-British farmstead, likely occupied between the 1st and 4th centuries AD. It belongs to a dense pattern of small native enclosed farmsteads characteristic of the low-lying ground between the Eden and the Solway.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The farmstead represents the indigenous Carvetian rural population whose mixed pastoral and arable economy underpinned the food supply to the Wall garrison and the Cumberland coastal forts (e.g. Kirkbride, Bowness-on-Solway). Its continuity from a prehistoric enclosure illustrates the persistence of local landholding through the Roman annexation rather than disruption by it.
The site is known principally from aerial photography and cropmark survey, showing curvilinear ditched enclosures and a linear trackway typical of the region's native settlements; no substantial published excavation is recorded here, so artefactual dating and internal structures (likely timber roundhouses) remain inferred from comparable excavated sites such as Wolsty Hall,
This is a multi-period rural settlement on the Solway Plain in Cumbria, roughly 10 km south-west of Carlisle and just south of Hadrian's Wall's western coastal defences. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Prehistoric enclosure and trackway, and a Romano-British farmstead WNW of Fingland is classified as a Roman site — 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 Kirkbride (2.1 km), Turret 76A (Drumburgh) (2.9 km), Congavata (2.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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