The settlement 405m east of Fowberry Moor is a small enclosed Romano-British farmstead in north Northumberland, sited in the rolling upland fringe between the Cheviots and the coastal plain. Like other enclosed sites in this region, it most likely originated in the late pre-Roman Iron Age and continued in use through the 2nd–4th centuries AD, comprising a rectilinear stone-walled enclosure containing one or more stone-built roundhouses and associated yards.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this type represent the dominant form of native rural settlement in the region behind Hadrian's Wall and in the territory of the Votadini, persisting under Roman rule as small mixed-farming holdings outside the formal military and urban network. Their distribution on the Fowberry/Chatton moors reflects a dense pattern of small landholdings exploiting upland pasture and arable margins.
No modern excavation has been published for this specific enclosure; it is known from earthwork and aerial survey of the Fowberry area, which has recorded a concentration of prehistoric and Romano-British enclosures, hut circles, and cup-and-ring marked rock outcrops nearby. Comparable excavated sites in the vicinity (e.g. Hetha Burn, Greaves Ash, and the Fowberry/Chatton complexes) suggest finds here would typically include coarse native pottery, querns, and occasional Roman trade goods, but spec
The settlement 405m east of Fowberry Moor is a small enclosed Romano-British farmstead in north Northumberland, sited in the rolling upland fringe between the Cheviots and the coastal plain. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British enclosed settlement, 405m east of Fowberry Moor 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 and part of an associated field system 630m south west of White Gables (5 km), Prehistoric cairnfield and unenclosed settlement, Romano-British village and field system and medieval field system on north east slopes of Brands Hill (5 km), Roman period native settlements, field system and medieval shieling on the east slope of Brands Hill, 550m west of Middleton Old Town (5.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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