This is a small native farmstead situated on the moorland just north of Hadrian's Wall, near the prominent sandstone outcrop of King's Crags above the North Tyne valley. It is one of a cluster of dispersed indigenous settlements occupying the upland zone between the Wall and the Whin Sill escarpment, broadly active during the Roman period (likely 2nd–4th centuries AD), though precise dating from this specific site is lacking.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites like this represent the persistence of the local Brigantian/Textoverdi rural population living within the militarised frontier zone, probably engaged in mixed pastoral farming and supplying agricultural produce — particularly livestock — to the nearby garrisons at Housesteads and along the Wall. Its position behind the Wall places it within the formally controlled provincial landscape rather than in barbaricum.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation; visible remains typically comprise a sub-rectangular or curvilinear enclosure with stone-founded hut circles and associated small fields or paddocks, characteristic of the upland Northumberland farmstead type recorded by RCHME and George Jobey's regional surveys. No published excavation assemblage exists for this particular farmstead, so finds, internal chronology, and economy must be inferred from comparable excavated sites such as Milking Gap and Cr
This is a small native farmstead situated on the moorland just north of Hadrian's Wall, near the prominent sandstone outcrop of King's Crags above the North Tyne valley. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead, 250m east of King's Crags 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 Queen's Crags Roman Quarry (0.9 km), Milecastle 35 (Sewingshields) (1.1 km), Turret 35A (Sewingshields Crag) (1.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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