The settlement north of Yanwath Wood, in the Lowther valley south of Penrith, is a Romano-British rural settlement associated with a regular "cohesive" or "brickwork-style" aggregate field system characteristic of the Eden Valley. Sites of this type in the region were typically occupied from the later Iron Age through the Roman period, with peak activity likely in the 2nd–4th centuries AD, comprising small enclosed farmsteads engaged in mixed agriculture and stock-rearing.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
It forms part of the dense pattern of native farmsteads in the hinterland of the Roman fort and vicus at Brougham (Brocavum), where indigenous communities continued traditional landholding while supplying agricultural produce to the military and roadside markets along the route to Carlisle. The associated coaxial field system is significant as evidence for organised, possibly coordinated, land division in the Roman-period uplands of Cumbria.
The site is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork survey, which reveal enclosures, hut platforms and rectilinear fields; no substantive published excavation is recorded for this specific settlement. Interpretation therefore rests on analogy with excavated comparanda in the Eden Valley such as Crosby Garrett, Ewe Close and the Penrith-area enclosures.
The settlement north of Yanwath Wood, in the Lowther valley south of Penrith, is a Romano-British rural settlement associated with a regular "cohesive" or "brickwork-style" aggregate field system characteristic of the Eden Valley. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement and regular aggregate field system north of Yanwath Wood 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 Brocavum (3.4 km), Skirsgill Romano-British enclosed stone hut circle settlement, Romano-British farmstead, and Romano-British regular aggregate field system (3.7 km), Roman road and enclosures SE of Frenchfield (3.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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