Lanthwaite Green is a small Romano-British enclosed settlement situated at around 130m OD on the lower slopes of Whiteside, at the north-western end of Crummock Water in the western Lake District. The site comprises one or two stone-founded hut circles within a sub-rectangular enclosure, with an attached annexe likely used as a stock pen or small yard, fitting the pattern of upland native farmsteads probably occupied during the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
It is one of a scatter of small enclosed farmsteads across the Cumbrian fells representing the indigenous, pastoral-farming population that continued largely traditional Iron Age lifeways under Roman rule, lying in the hinterland of the military zone served by the forts at Papcastle, Maryport and the Hardknott–Ambleside route. The site has no evidence of direct Roman administration but reflects the rural economy that supplied and was taxed by that military infrastructure.
The settlement survives as low earthwork and stony banks and is known principally from field survey (recorded by the RCHME/English Heritage and the Lake District National Park HER) rather than from modern excavation, and no detailed artefactual assemblage has been published. Dating therefore rests on morphological comparison with excavated analogues such as Eller Beck, Aughertree Fell and the Waitby/Crosby Garrett group rather than on stratified finds from the site itself.
Lanthwaite Green is a small Romano-British enclosed settlement situated at around 130m OD on the lower slopes of Whiteside, at the north-western end of Crummock Water in the western Lake District. 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 and associated annexe at Lanthwaite Green 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 Romano-British farmstead 200m west of Lambing Knott (6.3 km), Prehistoric cairnfield and a Romano-British farmstead and its associated field system 1.24 km ESE of Low Gillerthwaite (7.2 km), Romano-British farmstead in Fitz Woods (10.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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