This is a small enclosed settlement on the upland fringes of Redesdale in Northumberland, situated in the hills south-east of the better-known Woolaw settlement above the Rede valley. Like its neighbours, it is a stone-walled native enclosure of the Romano-British period, probably occupied between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, containing the foundations of round stone-built houses and small yards typical of the indigenous farming communities of the North Tyne–Rede uplands.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of a dense cluster of native farmsteads in Upper Redesdale that lay within the military zone north of Hadrian's Wall, close to Dere Street and the outpost fort at High Rochester (Bremenium). These settlements illustrate the continuation, and in some areas intensification, of small-scale pastoral and mixed farming under Roman military oversight rather than direct urbanisation.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation, with a sub-rectangular enclosure wall, hut circles, and traces of associated field systems and trackways visible on the ground and in aerial photography. No significant excavated assemblage is recorded for this specific enclosure, and its dating rests on morphological comparison with excavated Redesdale sites such as Woolaw itself and Riding Wood.
This is a small enclosed settlement on the upland fringes of Redesdale in Northumberland, situated in the hills south-east of the better-known Woolaw settlement above the Rede valley. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British enclosed settlement 400m south east of Woolaw 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 570m west of Woolaw (0.8 km), Two Romano-British settlements, two stone hut circles, field system and associated cord rig cultivation, 650m west of Nether Houses (0.9 km), Birdhope Camps (0.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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