This is a small Romano-British farmstead situated in the upland landscape of the North Tyne valley in Northumberland, lying within the militarised zone south of Hadrian's Wall (the Wall runs some 10km to the south). Such sites in this region were typically occupied between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, comprising one or more stone-walled roundhouses set within a rectilinear enclosure, often with associated yards and small infield plots.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The farmstead represents the indigenous rural settlement pattern of the Tyne–Rede uplands that persisted under Roman rule, likely supplying produce and livestock to the Wall garrisons and providing tax-in-kind through the military supply network. Sites of this type illustrate the continuity of native British farming traditions alongside, rather than fully integrated into, the Roman provincial economy.
No detailed excavation record is available for this specific site, which is known principally through aerial photography and earthwork survey showing the typical curvilinear or sub-rectangular enclosure with internal hut platforms characteristic of the regional "Tyne valley" farmstead tradition documented at comparable sites such as Tower Knowe and Belling Law. Without targeted investigation, dating relies on morphological parallels rather than stratified finds.
This is a small Romano-British farmstead situated in the upland landscape of the North Tyne valley in Northumberland, lying within the militarised zone south of Hadrian's Wall (the Wall runs some 10km to the south). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead, 300m north of Buteland 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 settlement, 300m north of The Heugh (1.2 km), Romano-British settlement, 700m north west of The Heugh (1.4 km), Romano-British settlement and field of cord rig, 625m south west of Rede Bridge (1.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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