This is a Romano-British native settlement situated on the east-facing slope of Mid Hill in the Cheviot uplands of the Scottish Borders, lying just over half a kilometre south of the Staw Hill enclosure. It belongs to a dense group of small, unenclosed or lightly-enclosed upland farmsteads typical of the region during the later Iron Age and Roman period (broadly 1st–4th centuries AD), characterised by stone-founded round houses associated with small yards and cultivation plots.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this kind represent the indigenous agro-pastoral population of the Cheviots living beyond the formal Roman frontier zone but within its sphere of influence, continuing traditional mixed farming while plausibly engaging with Roman markets and military supply networks via Dere Street and forts such as Chew Green. Individually unremarkable, such settlements are collectively important for understanding the persistence and adaptation of native communities under Rome.
No excavation is recorded for this specific site; it is known only through earthwork survey, showing the characteristic stone hut circles and associated enclosure or plot boundaries visible as surface remains. Dating is inferred typologically from comparison with excavated Cheviot settlements such as those at Greaves Ash, Knock Hill and Hartside, rather than from finds from the site itself.
This is a Romano-British native settlement situated on the east-facing slope of Mid Hill in the Cheviot uplands of the Scottish Borders, lying just over half a kilometre south of the Staw Hill enclosure. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman period native settlement on east slope of Mid Hill, 520m south of Staw Hill Camp 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 200m SSE of Staw Hill defended settlement (0.3 km), Roman period native enclosed settlement 600m north east of Elsdonburn Shank (1.8 km), Roman period native farmstead 320m north east of Longknowe (2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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