This is a small native farmstead of the Roman Iron Age in the Cheviot foothills above the Harthope valley, situated on rising ground south-east of Langleeford. Such upland farmsteads in this part of Northumberland were typically occupied during the 1st to 4th centuries AD, comprising a small enclosed cluster of stone-founded roundhouses with associated yards and small fields or plots.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense pattern of indigenous Brittonic (Votadinian) settlement in the Cheviots that persisted, largely unaltered in form, throughout the Roman occupation of northern Britain — these communities lay beyond Hadrian's Wall and produced pastoral surplus that likely fed into the wider frontier economy. Its significance lies less in any individual prominence than in its contribution to understanding the extensive native landscape around Yeavering Bell and the Harthope.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation, with visible remains of stone-walled enclosure(s) and hut circles characteristic of the regional type; no published excavation assemblage exists for this specific farmstead. Dating rests on morphological comparison with excavated Cheviot sites such as Hartburn, Huckhoe and Greaves Ash, where similar settlements yielded Roman coarsewares, querns and occasional metalwork.
This is a small native farmstead of the Roman Iron Age in the Cheviot foothills above the Harthope valley, situated on rising ground south-east of Langleeford. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman period native farmstead north west of Long Crags, 600m south east of Langleeford 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 Roman period native scooped enclosure, 930m north east of Langlee (2.8 km), Roman period native enclosed settlement and scooped enclosure on the south east slopes of Brands Hill, 350m north west of Cowboy's Cairn (3 km), Roman period native enclosed settlement 360m south east of Broadstruther (3.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
Aubrey Research generates detailed historical reports for any location in Britain, incorporating Roman heritage, Domesday Book records, scheduled monument data, archaeological finds and much more. Enter a nearby address to begin.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any address in Britain — drawing on Roman heritage, Domesday records, scheduled monument data, archaeological finds and medieval history to reveal the complete story of a landscape.
Research the area around Roman period native farmstead north west of Long Crags, 600m south east of Langleeford