This is a small enclosed native settlement in the Cheviot Hills foothills of Northumberland, roughly 360m southeast of Broadstruther farmstead in the upper Carey Burn valley. It is one of a dense cluster of Iron Age and Romano-British rural settlements occupying this upland landscape, likely active during the later Iron Age and into the Roman period (broadly 1st–4th centuries AD), characterised by a sub-circular or rectilinear enclosure containing stone-founded roundhouses and ancillary yards.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this kind represent the indigenous population beyond the Roman frontier zone (or in its immediate hinterland north of Hadrian's Wall), continuing a long tradition of mixed pastoral and arable farming with apparently limited material engagement with the Roman economy. Its significance lies less in any individual prominence than in its contribution to understanding the dense, persistent native settlement pattern of the Cheviots under Roman rule.
The site is known primarily from earthwork survey rather than excavation, with the enclosure bank, internal hut platforms and associated features recorded by RCHME/Historic England and Northumberland HER fieldwork; no published excavation or significant artefact assemblage is recorded for this specific site, so dating relies on morphological comparison with excavated Cheviot examples such as those at Hartburn, Brough Law and Wether Hill.
This is a small enclosed native settlement in the Cheviot Hills foothills of Northumberland, roughly 360m southeast of Broadstruther farmstead in the upper Carey Burn valley. 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 360m south east of Broadstruther 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 settlement 400m WSW of Carey Burn Bridge (2.9 km), Roman period native settlement on south eastern slope of Hart Heugh, 490m north west of Carey Burn Bridge (2.9 km), Roman period native settlement 750m north west of Carey Burn Bridge (3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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