The Romano-British farmstead southeast of Whingill lies in the upland fringe of the Lyvennet/Lowther valley system in Westmorland (modern Cumbria), within an area of well-preserved earthwork settlement of late Iron Age to Romano-British date (broadly 1st–4th centuries AD). It is one of a dense scatter of small enclosed native farmsteads typical of the Eden valley and its tributaries, likely comprising a stone-walled or banked enclosure containing one or more round or sub-rectangular hut platforms with associated yards and small fields.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this type represent the indigenous Brigantian rural population continuing largely pre-conquest lifeways under Roman administration, situated within the militarised zone served by the forts at Brougham (Brocavum), Low Borrowbridge and along the road to Carlisle. Economically it would have been a stock-rearing and mixed-farming holding, possibly supplying agricultural surplus to the nearby military and roadside settlements.
No formal excavation is recorded for this specific site; it is known primarily from earthwork survey and aerial/field identification of enclosure banks and hut circles, in line with comparable sites such as those at Crosby Garrett, Waitby and Ewe Close. Diagnostic finds and dating evidence from this particular farmstead are not on record, and its phasing rests on morphological parallels with excavated examples in the region.
The Romano-British farmstead southeast of Whingill lies in the upland fringe of the Lyvennet/Lowther valley system in Westmorland (modern Cumbria), within an area of well-preserved earthwork settlement of late Iron Age to Romano-British date (broadly 1st–4th centuries AD). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead 650m south east of Whingill 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 670m ESE of Whingill (0.3 km), Romano-British farmstead 700m east of Whingill (0.5 km), Waitby Castle enclosed Romano-British settlement and part of a medieval dyke (3.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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