This is a small Romano-British farmstead on Beanley Moor in north Northumberland, situated in the uplands south of the Breamish valley and within the territory traditionally associated with the Votadini. Like comparable native sites in the region, it most likely flourished between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD as a stone-built enclosed settlement housing a single extended family or kin group engaged in mixed pastoral and small-scale arable farming.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense scatter of native upland farmsteads on Beanley Moor and the wider Cheviot fringe, which together illustrate the persistence of indigenous settlement patterns in the frontier zone north of Hadrian's Wall, lying within the area held under loose Roman oversight rather than direct military occupation. It is not individually notable but contributes to the regional picture of a thriving, largely undisturbed native population during the Roman period.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation, typically appearing as a curvilinear or sub-rectangular stone-walled enclosure containing the foundations of one or more round stone-founded huts and traces of associated yards; no significant excavated assemblage is recorded from this specific farmstead. Without targeted excavation, finds, precise dating and economic detail for this particular settlement remain unknown.
This is a small Romano-British farmstead on Beanley Moor in north Northumberland, situated in the uplands south of the Breamish valley and within the territory traditionally associated with the Votadini. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British farmstead on Beanley Moor, 500m SSE of Broom House 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.
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