This is a Romano-British native settlement situated in Danefield Wood, in the upland fringe west of Otley on the south side of Wharfedale, West Yorkshire. It belongs to the broader pattern of small enclosed rural settlements of the Brigantian zone, likely occupied between the late 1st and 4th centuries AD, comprising one or more enclosures with associated fields rather than a villa or nucleated village.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site is one of a dense scatter of native farmsteads in the Wharfe–Washburn watershed that continued indigenous Iron Age traditions of mixed pastoral and arable agriculture under Roman rule, lying within the hinterland of the Roman road network linking Ilkley (Olicana) and Adel. It illustrates the persistence of local Brigantian settlement patterns rather than any direct Romanisation.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey, surviving as enclosure banks and associated features preserved under woodland cover; no significant excavation has been published, and there is no recorded artefactual assemblage to confirm the precise chronology or status. Its Romano-British attribution rests on morphological comparison with excavated parallels elsewhere in the West Yorkshire uplands, such as those at Ling Hall, Eshton, and the upper Washburn valley.
This is a Romano-British native settlement situated in Danefield Wood, in the upland fringe west of Otley on the south side of Wharfedale, West Yorkshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman period native settlement in Danefield Wood, 490m south west of Stubbings Farm 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 in Poolscar Wood, 350m south of Stubbings Farm (0.3 km), Adel (6.8 km), Ilkley (Verbeia?) (10.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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