Despite the "Bridge" classification, this site is recorded as a Romano-British farmstead and associated field system located in the upland landscape of the Anglo-Scottish border country, approximately 320m northeast of Rede Bridge in Northumberland. The site likely represents a small native rural settlement of the 1st–4th centuries AD, of a type widespread in the Redesdale valley, characterised by enclosed homesteads with stone or earthwork boundaries set within a coaxial system of small fields and stock enclosures.
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Its significance lies in its position within the militarised zone of Redesdale, close to Dere Street and the chain of forts (Habitancum/Risingham, Bremenium/High Rochester) that controlled the route north from Hadrian's Wall — such farmsteads supplied the army with grain and livestock and illustrate how the indigenous population continued traditional pastoral and arable practices under Roman administration.
No formal excavation is recorded; the site is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork survey, which reveal the outlines of enclosures and lynchetted field boundaries typical of the region's surviving upland Romano-British landscapes. Specific finds assemblages from this particular farmstead have not been published.
Despite the "Bridge" classification, this site is recorded as a Romano-British farmstead and associated field system located in the upland landscape of the Anglo-Scottish border country, approximately 320m northeast of Rede Bridge in Northumberland. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a bridge site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead and field system 320m north east of Rede Bridge is classified as a Roman bridge — a infrastructure 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 settlement and field of cord rig, 625m south west of Rede Bridge (0.8 km), Romano-British farmstead, 300m north of Buteland (1.8 km), Romano-British settlement, 700m north west of The Heugh (2.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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