This is a Romano-British farmstead located 300m south of the presumed site of Hetchester (Whitchester), in the South Tyne valley of Northumberland, just south of Hadrian's Wall. As a native rural settlement in the Wall's hinterland, it likely operated from the later 1st or 2nd century AD into the 3rd or 4th century, comprising stone-founded round or sub-rectangular houses set within an enclosed yard with associated paddocks and small fields.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such farmsteads formed the economic backbone of the Wall zone, supplying grain, livestock, hides and labour to the military garrisons stationed along the frontier. The cluster of native settlements around Hetchester reflects the dense indigenous occupation of the Tyne valley that persisted, and in many cases intensified, under Roman rule.
Specific excavation results from this particular farmstead are not recorded in the published literature available to me; it is most likely known from aerial photography or earthwork survey showing enclosure ditches and hut platforms, consistent with the typical "stone-walled enclosed settlement" type identified across Northumberland by surveys such as those of George Jobey. Without targeted excavation, its precise chronology and economy remain undemonstrated.
This is a Romano-British farmstead located 300m south of the presumed site of Hetchester (Whitchester), in the South Tyne valley of Northumberland, just south of Hadrian's Wall. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead 300m south of Hetchester 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 400m WSW of Hetchester (0.4 km), Romano-British farmstead 750m NNE of Quarry House (2 km), Romano-British farmstead 260m west of Plashetts Farm (2.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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