This is a small Romano-British farmstead in the upland fringe of the South Tyne valley, Northumberland, lying roughly 5km south of Hadrian's Wall and the fort at Whitley Castle (Epiacum). Such sites in this area were typically occupied between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, comprising one or two stone-founded roundhouses set within a curvilinear or sub-rectangular enclosure, supporting mixed pastoral farming on marginal land.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense scatter of native farmsteads in the Pennine frontier zone, whose inhabitants likely supplied the military garrisons of the Wall and Epiacum with livestock, hides, and grain, while themselves remaining materially modest and largely Iron Age in character.
No formal excavation is recorded; the site is known from earthwork and aerial survey, showing enclosure banks and probable hut platforms typical of the regional "stone-built native settlement" tradition catalogued by the Northumberland and RCHME surveys. Surface finds and dating evidence specific to this farmstead are not published in detail.
This is a small Romano-British farmstead in the upland fringe of the South Tyne valley, Northumberland, lying roughly 5km south of Hadrian's Wall and the fort at Whitley Castle (Epiacum). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead, 120m south west of Cat's Elbow is classified as a Roman site — 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, 540m north of Reaver Crag Farm (0.8 km), Romano-British farmstead, 750m east of Camphill Farm (1 km), Romano-British farmstead, 70m south-west of Pity Me (1.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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