The Romano-British farmstead 570m west of Woolaw lies in the upper Rede valley of Redesdale, Northumberland, in the militarised zone south of the Cheviots and roughly 3km from the Roman road of Dere Street. It is one of a cluster of small, stone-built native enclosed settlements typical of the North Tyne–Rede uplands, broadly active during the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, comprising one or more roundhouses set within a curvilinear or rectilinear enclosure.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this kind represent the indigenous Brigantian/Votadinian farming population continuing under Roman rule, supplying foodstuffs, livestock and possibly labour to the nearby military installations at High Rochester (Bremenium) and the Dere Street corridor. The Woolaw group is notable as part of a particularly dense concentration of upland farmsteads that illustrates how native settlement intensified rather than retreated in proximity to the frontier garrisons.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey (recorded by the Royal Commission and now Historic England/NMR) showing stone wall footings of hut circles within an enclosure; no modern excavation has been published, so artefactual dating and internal chronology remain unestablished and rely on analogy with excavated Redesdale sites such as Woolaw itself and Bridge House.
The Romano-British farmstead 570m west of Woolaw lies in the upper Rede valley of Redesdale, Northumberland, in the militarised zone south of the Cheviots and roughly 3km from the Roman road of Dere Street. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead 570m west of Woolaw 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 enclosed settlement and medieval settlement 300m south of Burdhope (0.3 km), Romano-British enclosed settlement 400m south east of Woolaw (0.8 km), Birdhope Camps (1.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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