This Romano-British settlement lies in the Vale of Pickering in East Yorkshire, an area densely occupied during the Roman period and characterised by low-lying agricultural communities exploiting the fertile lacustrine soils. The coordinates fall within the territory of the Parisi tribe, in a landscape of dispersed farmsteads, ladder settlements, and enclosure complexes active broadly from the late Iron Age through the 4th century AD.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Settlements of this type in the Vale of Pickering formed part of the agricultural hinterland supplying the legionary fortress at York (Eboracum) and the small towns at Malton (Derventio) and Brough-on-Humber (Petuaria). They were economically integrated with the wider provincial economy but generally remained culturally conservative, retaining native roundhouse traditions and limited adoption of Romanised material culture.
Aerial photography and geophysical survey across the Vale of Pickering (notably the Heslerton Parish Project and surveys around Wharram) have revealed extensive cropmark complexes of trackways, rectilinear enclosures, and roundhouse compounds typical of the region; without a specific site name attached to this Pleiades record, no excavation evidence can be reliably cited for this exact location.
This Romano-British settlement lies in the Vale of Pickering in East Yorkshire, an area densely occupied during the Roman period and characterised by low-lying agricultural communities exploiting the fertile lacustrine soils. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Rudston Roman Villa (11.7 km), Rudston (11.9 km), Late Iron Age and Roman period dispersed enclosed settlement 230m south east of Quartons Gardens (12.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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