This is a small native-style rural settlement in the North Tyne valley of Northumberland, lying in the uplands not far south of Hadrian's Wall and its hinterland. Like comparable farmsteads in the region, it most probably represents a stone-built enclosed homestead of later Iron Age to Romano-British date (broadly 1st–4th century AD), occupied by an indigenous farming community whose material culture remained largely unchanged by Roman annexation.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such sites form part of the dense pattern of small enclosed farms that populated the uplands south and north of the Wall, supplying foodstuffs (notably livestock and cereals) to the military zone and demonstrating the persistence of native settlement under Roman rule. Individually unremarkable, they are collectively important for understanding the rural economy that sustained the frontier.
No formal excavation is recorded at this specific farmstead; it is known from earthwork or aerial survey as a small enclosed settlement, and like its neighbours would be expected to contain stone-founded roundhouses set within a curvilinear or rectilinear enclosure with associated yards. Detailed finds assemblages from the site itself are not published.
This is a small native-style rural settlement in the North Tyne valley of Northumberland, lying in the uplands not far south of Hadrian's Wall and its hinterland. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead 260m west of Plashetts Farm 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 750m NNE of Quarry House (0.8 km), Romano-British farmstead, 440m south of Hawick Farm (0.8 km), Romano-British farmstead 400m NNW of Sweethope Farm (1.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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