This is a small Romano-British farmstead set within an extensive co-axial field system on the limestone plateau of the White Peak, Derbyshire, about 600m south of Roystone Grange near Ballidon. Occupation broadly spans the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, comprising rectilinear stone-walled enclosures, hut platforms and lynchetted plots, representing a modest pastoral and mixed-farming holding typical of the Peak District uplands under Roman rule.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The Roystone Grange landscape is one of the most thoroughly studied rural archaeological sequences in northern England, demonstrating continuity of land division from the prehistoric through Romano-British and into medieval monastic periods. Economically the settlement likely supplied stock, wool, and possibly lead-related labour to the nearby lead-mining industry of Lutudarum, the markets at Carsington, and the road network linking the forts at Brough-on-Noe (Navio) and Buxton (Aquae Arnemetiae).
Richard Hodges' Roystone Grange Project (1978–1989) mapped and excavated the field walls, lynchets and at least one Romano-British farmstead complex with associated dry-stone "orthostatic" wall foundations, producing Derbyshire ware, greywares, querns and animal bone indicative of sheep-domin
This is a small Romano-British farmstead set within an extensive co-axial field system on the limestone plateau of the White Peak, Derbyshire, about 600m south of Roystone Grange near Ballidon. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement and field system, 600m south of Roystone Grange 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 Romano-British field wall and embankment, 200m south west of Roystone Grange (0.4 km), Romano-British field system, 420m south east of Roystone Grange (0.5 km), Prehistoric and Romano-British barrow and medieval animal pen, 450m south east of Roystone Grange (0.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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