This site is a small enclosed native settlement on the limestone uplands above the Lune valley, near Leck Fell on the Lancashire/Cumbria border. It comprises hut circles within an enclosure, typical of the Romano-British rural settlements that occupied these marginal upland fringes between roughly the 1st and 4th centuries AD, representing a continuation of indigenous Iron Age building traditions under Roman rule.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The settlement reflects the persistence of small-scale pastoral and mixed farming communities in the Brigantian uplands, lying within the military zone of northern Britain but well away from major Roman infrastructure — the nearest significant Roman presence being the road and forts of the Lune corridor. Such sites are important collectively for understanding how native populations adapted to, or simply continued alongside, Roman administration in upland Lancashire.
The site is known principally from field survey and aerial/earthwork identification rather than excavation; visible remains consist of stone-walled hut circles within an enclosure bank. No published excavation finds are recorded for this specific monument, and dating rests on morphological comparison with better-investigated Romano-British upland farmsteads in the wider region.
This site is a small enclosed native settlement on the limestone uplands above the Lune valley, near Leck Fell on the Lancashire/Cumbria border. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British enclosed hut circle settlement 375m ENE of Collingholme 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 milestone 500ft (150m) SE of Overtown Farm (1.5 km), Kalagon/Galacum (2.3 km), Roman fort and civil settlement, Over Burrow (2.8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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