This is a multi-period upland site in the Cheviot foothills of north Northumberland, on the eastern flank of the College Valley near Torleehouse. The Roman-period component is a small native enclosed farmstead with associated cord-rig or rectilinear field system and a trackway, of a type widely occupied in the region from the late pre-Roman Iron Age through the 2nd–4th centuries AD; a separate medieval farmstead reoccupies part of the same ground.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this kind represent the indigenous Votadinian rural population who continued mixed pastoral and arable farming throughout the Roman period largely outside the formal frontier economy, lying north of Hadrian's Wall and beyond the abandoned Antonine line. Its significance lies less in any individual prominence than in its contribution to the dense palimpsest of native settlement and cultivation preserved in the Cheviots, one of the best-surviving prehistoric and Romano-British landscapes in Britain.
The site is known primarily from earthwork survey rather than excavation, recording stone-founded hut circles or rectilinear building platforms within an enclosure, adjoining lynchetted plots and a hollow-way, with the overlying medieval longhouse-type farmstead distinguishable by its rectangular plan and turf banks. No closely dated artefactual assemblage from this specific site is published, so the Roman-period attribution rests on morphological parallels with excav
This is a multi-period upland site in the Cheviot foothills of north Northumberland, on the eastern flank of the College Valley near Torleehouse. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman period native settlement, associated field system and trackway, and medieval farmstead 270m south of Torleehouse 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 Three Roman period native settlements and later droveway 750m south west of Torleehouse (0.6 km), Roman period native settlement 340m east of Hethpool Linn (0.9 km), Romano-British settlements E of Yeavering Bell containing the Old Sheepfold settlement and settlements to the W and S of it (2.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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