The site immediately south of Russell Farm lies in the limestone uplands of the Lune valley fringe, in what is now southern Cumbria/north Lancashire, and represents a small Romano-British farmstead of the type that proliferated across this region from the later 1st through the 4th centuries AD. It would have been a modest, family-scale agricultural settlement — likely a sub-rectangular or curvilinear enclosure containing one or two round or sub-rectangular buildings, associated paddocks, and clearance cairns — engaged in mixed pastoral farming with an emphasis on cattle and sheep.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such farmsteads form the basic rural infrastructure of the northwestern frontier zone, supplying agricultural produce to the military garrisons of the Stainmore corridor and the forts at Burrow-in-Lonsdale, Low Borrowbridge, and ultimately Hadrian's Wall. Individually unremarkable, they are collectively significant as evidence that native settlement patterns continued, and in places intensified, under Roman administration despite the proximity of military authority.
Very little has been published specifically about this site; it is recorded essentially as a cropmark/earthwork enclosure identified through aerial survey or fieldwalking, without (to my knowledge) excavation or substantial finds assemblages. Comparable enclosed farmsteads in the wider region have yielded coarse Black Burnished ware, occasional sam
The site immediately south of Russell Farm lies in the limestone uplands of the Lune valley fringe, in what is now southern Cumbria/north Lancashire, and represents a small Romano-British farmstead of the type that proliferated across this region from the later 1st through the 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 immediately south of Russell 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 Roman fort and civil settlement, Over Burrow (7 km), Kalagon/Galacum (7.3 km), Roman milestone 500ft (150m) SE of Overtown Farm (8.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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