The Romano-British farmstead north-west of Grottington Farm lies in the South Tyne valley of Northumberland, roughly 5 km south of Hadrian's Wall near the fort of Halton Chesters (Onnum). It is one of numerous small native rural settlements in the Wall's hinterland, likely occupied during the 2nd–4th centuries AD, comprising stone-founded roundhouses and small enclosed yards typical of upland Tyne valley farmsteads.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Sites of this kind formed the agrarian backbone supplying the Wall garrison, integrating an indigenous farming population into the Roman provincial economy through produce, leather, and possibly labour. Individually unremarkable, such farmsteads collectively demonstrate the dense continuity of native settlement immediately south of the frontier.
The site is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork/cropmark survey rather than excavation, showing a curvilinear or sub-rectangular enclosure with internal hut platforms characteristic of the regional "Tynedale" farmstead type. No published excavation assemblage is recorded for this specific site, and dating rests on morphological parallels with excavated comparators such as Milking Gap, Kennel Hall Knowe and Woolaw.
The Romano-British farmstead north-west of Grottington Farm lies in the South Tyne valley of Northumberland, roughly 5 km south of Hadrian's Wall near the fort of Halton Chesters (Onnum). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead, 750m north-west of Grottington Farm 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, 1km north-west of Grottington Farm (0.2 km), Turret 23B (Wall Fell) (1.5 km), Turret 23A (Stanley Plantation) (1.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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