The site 500m north-west of Garretshiels lies in the upland fringes of Redesdale, Northumberland, a short distance south of the line of Dere Street and the Roman fort at High Rochester (Bremenium). It is a small native farmstead of the type that proliferated across the Cheviot and Redesdale uplands in the late Iron Age and Roman period (broadly 1st–4th centuries AD), almost certainly a single-family enclosed settlement with stone-walled or earthen-banked enclosure containing round timber or stone houses and small yards.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such farmsteads represent the indigenous rural population that continued to occupy the landscape behind and beyond Hadrian's Wall, supplying labour, livestock, and grain to the military zone; their density along the Dere Street corridor illustrates how the Roman frontier economy depended on, and probably stimulated, native pastoral and mixed farming.
No modern excavation has been published for this specific site; it is known principally from aerial photography and field survey recording an enclosure and associated hut platforms, with comparable nearby sites (e.g. at Woolaw and Bellshiel) producing Romano-British pottery, querns, and evidence of small-scale arable cultivation alongside stock enclosures.
The site 500m north-west of Garretshiels lies in the upland fringes of Redesdale, Northumberland, a short distance south of the line of Dere Street and the Roman fort at High Rochester (Bremenium). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead 500m north west of Garretshiels 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 Dargues (0.6 km), Blakehope Roman fort and Roman temporary camp (1.3 km), Romano-British farmstead, 550m south-east of Shittleheugh (1.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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