This is a small Romano-British farmstead and associated rectilinear field system on the limestone plateau of the White Peak, part of the well-known Roystone Grange archaeological landscape in Derbyshire. Occupation appears to span the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, comprising a modest stone-founded farmstead set within a coaxial system of low stone walls (lynchets and rubble banks) defining small enclosed fields and stock paddocks.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of one of the most completely preserved and intensively studied Romano-British rural landscapes in northern England, demonstrating low-status pastoral and mixed farming in the hinterland of the Peak District lead-mining zone, likely linked economically to the military and civilian markets at Navio (Brough-on-Noe) and Buxton (Aquae Arnemetiae). Its survival as upstanding earthworks alongside contemporary fields makes it an important type-site for upland Romano-British settlement.
Survey and excavation in the Roystone Grange area by Richard Hodges and colleagues (1978 onwards) identified the settlement through earthwork survey, with stone wall footings, a possible building platform, and finds of Derbyshire ware and other coarse pottery indicating later Roman activity; faunal and environmental evidence from the wider project points to sheep husbandry as the dominant activity. The specific north-western settlement is less fully published than the principal Roystone
This is a small Romano-British farmstead and associated rectilinear field system on the limestone plateau of the White Peak, part of the well-known Roystone Grange archaeological landscape in Derbyshire. 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 immediately north west 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 (0.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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