This is a small enclosed native settlement on Beanley Moor in north Northumberland, comprising a sub-rectangular stone-walled enclosure containing the foundations of stone-built hut circles, typical of upland Romano-British farmsteads in the region. Such sites in the Cheviot fringe were generally occupied between the 1st and 4th centuries AD, though many had Iron Age origins continuing into the Roman period. It would have functioned as a single extended-family farmstead, combining domestic occupation with stock management and small-scale cultivation.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense pattern of indigenous settlement on the moorlands of the Breamish–Aln watershed, lying within the civilian zone behind Hadrian's Wall but in territory dominated by native (Votadinian) farming communities rather than direct Roman occupation. Beanley Moor itself contains a notable concentration of such enclosures alongside the larger hillfort earthworks, suggesting sustained settlement continuity through the Roman centuries.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation, with the enclosure wall and internal hut platforms visible as upstanding stone features; no published excavation results provide dating evidence specific to this monument. Its classification rests on morphological comparison with excavated parallels in the Cheviots, such as those at Greaves Ash and Hartburn, where similar enclosed hut groups produced Roman-period material.
This is a small enclosed native settlement on Beanley Moor in north Northumberland, comprising a sub-rectangular stone-walled enclosure containing the foundations of stone-built hut circles, typical of upland Romano-British farmsteads in the region. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British enclosed settlement and hut-circles on Beanley Moor, 650m south-east of Broomhouse 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.
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