This site comprises a small native farmstead and an adjacent stretch of the Roman road running north from Brougham (Brocavum) towards Carlisle (Luguvalium), part of the route now generally identified with the western branch of the road system linking the Eden Valley forts. The farmstead is typical of the upland-fringe rural settlements of the Eden Valley, likely occupied during the 2nd–4th centuries AD, and reflects the continuity of indigenous farming under Roman rule.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its significance lies in the close juxtaposition of a native farming community with a major military and administrative road less than 4 km north of the Roman fort and vicus at Brougham, illustrating how local Brigantian populations lived alongside, and likely supplied, the Roman infrastructure of the Eden corridor.
The site is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork survey rather than excavation, showing enclosure features and the agger of the road; no substantive excavation results are published for this specific location, and the dating rests largely on morphological parallels with other Eden Valley farmsteads such as those around Crackenthorpe and Kirkby Thore.
This site comprises a small native farmstead and an adjacent stretch of the Roman road running north from Brougham (Brocavum) towards Carlisle (Luguvalium), part of the route now generally identified with the western branch of the road system linking the Eden Valley forts. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead and a length of Roman road 800m south of Winderwath 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 Roman milestone, 180m north west of Spitals (3 km), Kirkby Thore Roman Fort and Associated Vicus (4.6 km), Brav(o)niacum (4.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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