This is a small native farmstead with an associated enclosure situated on the low-lying coastal plain of Furness in southern Cumbria, west of Ulverston. Sites of this type in the region typically belong to the later Iron Age through Romano-British period (broadly 1st–4th century AD), representing the continuation of indigenous Brigantian/Carvetian rural settlement under Roman influence rather than a Romanised villa establishment.
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The site forms part of the dispersed pattern of native subsistence farmsteads in the Furness peninsula, an area lying beyond the main villa zone but within the hinterland supplying the Roman military presence along the Cumbrian coast (notably the fort and supply route system linked to Ravenglass and the western coastal defences). Such farms represent the economic base of the rural population whose surplus, particularly in livestock, may have fed into the Roman supply network.
Little detailed archaeological investigation appears to have been undertaken at this specific site, which is known largely from earthwork and cropmark survey showing a small enclosure with associated features typical of native farmsteads in the region. No published excavation evidence or significant finds assemblage is recorded for this location, and dating rests on morphological comparison with better-investigated Cumbrian sites such as Eller Beck and Crosby Garrett.
This is a small native farmstead with an associated enclosure situated on the low-lying coastal plain of Furness in southern Cumbria, west of Ulverston. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead and associated enclosure west of Scales Haggs, 300m NNE of Scales Green 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 enclosed hut circle settlement 660m south east of Holme Bank (0.9 km), Romano-British farmstead east of Little Urswick Crags (2.2 km), Romano-British farmstead on Little Urswick Crags (2.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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