The Roman camp east of Redlands Bank lies on the high ground above the upper Lune valley in Cumbria, in the watershed country between the Eden and Lune drainages. It is one of a cluster of temporary marching camps in this area, likely associated with military movements along the trans-Pennine route linking the fort at Low Borrowbridge (to the south) with the Eden valley garrisons and the Stainmore corridor, probably dating to the campaigns of the late 1st or 2nd century AD.
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The site contributes to understanding how Roman forces moved and bivouacked across the difficult Cumbrian uplands, marking a stage in the network of overnight or short-stay encampments that supported campaigning and patrolling between the major forts of the region. As a temporary camp rather than a permanent installation, it reflects operational rather than administrative or economic functions.
Identification rests primarily on aerial photographic and earthwork survey evidence showing the characteristic playing-card outline of rampart and ditch typical of marching camps; no significant excavation appears to have been published, and dating is by morphological comparison rather than recovered material. Specific details of gateways, internal features, or finds from this particular camp are not, to my knowledge, recorded in the published literature.
The Roman camp east of Redlands Bank lies on the high ground above the upper Lune valley in Cumbria, in the watershed country between the Eden and Lune drainages. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a military camp site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman camp, 350m east of Redlands Bank 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 Brav(o)niacum (2.3 km), Kirkby Thore Roman Fort and Associated Vicus (2.4 km), Roman fortlet, 200m SSE of Castrigg (2.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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