This is a small Roman-period native settlement situated 200m SSE of the Staw Hill defended enclosure, in the upland Borders landscape of Roxburghshire, southern Scotland. Such sites in this region typically consist of unenclosed or lightly enclosed clusters of stone-founded or timber roundhouses with associated yards and small plots, occupied broadly between the 1st and 4th centuries AD. Its position relative to the adjacent defended settlement on Staw Hill suggests it represents either a contemporary "lower" agricultural settlement or, more likely, a successor settlement reflecting the shift from defended to open settlement that is widely documented in the Cheviot–Tweed zone during the Roman Iron Age.
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The site is part of the well-attested pattern in the Tweed basin and Cheviot fringe whereby Iron Age hillfort communities reorganised into smaller, undefended farmsteads during the period of Roman presence north of Hadrian's Wall, presumably under the relative stability (and economic pull) of the frontier zone. It has no known military or administrative role, but contributes to understanding the indigenous rural population that interacted with Roman forces along Dere Street and the Tweed forts.
No excavation is recorded for this specific site; it is known from field survey, with surface traces likely including hut platforms or stone footings and possibly enclosure banks. No artefactual assemblage has been published, and its
This is a small Roman-period native settlement situated 200m SSE of the Staw Hill defended enclosure, in the upland Borders landscape of Roxburghshire, southern Scotland. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman period native settlement 200m SSE of Staw Hill defended settlement 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 on east slope of Mid Hill, 520m south of Staw Hill Camp (0.3 km), Roman period native farmstead 320m north east of Longknowe (1.8 km), Roman period native enclosed settlement 600m north east of Elsdonburn Shank (1.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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