This is a small native enclosed settlement located in the College Valley area of the Cheviot Hills in northern Northumberland, set in the upland landscape above the College Burn near Fleehope farm. Such sites in this region typically date from the late Iron Age through the Roman period (c. 1st–4th centuries AD), comprising a stone-walled or banked enclosure containing a small number of roundhouses associated with a pastoral and mixed farming economy.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of a dense pattern of small enclosed farmsteads characteristic of the Cheviot uplands, representing the indigenous population that continued to occupy this frontier zone north of Hadrian's Wall throughout the Roman occupation, largely outside direct Roman administrative control but within its sphere of economic and political influence.
No formal excavation has been recorded at this specific enclosure, and knowledge derives from earthwork survey identifying the enclosure circuit and associated hut platforms; comparable excavated sites in the Cheviots (e.g. at Hartburn, Kennel Hall Knowe, and sites surveyed by RCHME in the College Valley) suggest stone-founded roundhouses, scooped yards, and limited finds of Roman material such as coarseware sherds reaching these communities through exchange.
This is a small native enclosed settlement located in the College Valley area of the Cheviot Hills in northern Northumberland, set in the upland landscape above the College Burn near Fleehope farm. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman period native enclosed settlement 270m ESE of Fleehope 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 period native enclosed farmstead, 470m ESE of Fleehope (0.2 km), Roman period native enclosed farmstead 370m WNW of Southernknowe (1.2 km), Roman period native enclosed farmstead 320m north west of Southernknowe (1.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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