This is a multi-period defended settlement in the uplands of south-east Northumberland, near Shaftoe Crags, where an Iron Age enclosed settlement was succeeded or overlain by a Romano-British rural settlement. Such sites in this region typically comprise a rectilinear or curvilinear enclosure with stone-founded roundhouses and yards, occupied broadly from the later 1st millennium BC into the 2nd–3rd centuries AD.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
It belongs to the dense pattern of native farming settlements that persisted behind Hadrian's Wall in the frontier zone, illustrating continuity of indigenous rural life under Roman administration rather than direct military or urban function. Sites of this type in the Wansbeck–Blyth catchment are important evidence for how local communities supplied and interacted with the nearby military zone.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey and aerial reconnaissance, showing enclosure banks/ditches and probable hut circles characteristic of the regional "Wallshield" or stone-built roundhouse tradition; no substantial modern excavation has been published, and detailed artefactual evidence specific to this site is limited.
This is a multi-period defended settlement in the uplands of south-east Northumberland, near Shaftoe Crags, where an Iron Age enclosed settlement was succeeded or overlain by a Romano-British rural settlement. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement and Iron Age defended settlement, 550m north east of Shaftoe 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 Huckhoe palisaded enclosure, defended settlement and Romano-British settlement, 550m north east of Bolam West Houses (1.9 km), Romano-British farmstead 470m north of Coldwell (7.3 km), Romano-British farmstead and associated annexe, 180m SSE of Herpath House (7.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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