This is a Romano-British rural settlement and associated farmstead located in the upper Eden Valley in Cumbria, north-east and east of Gilts (near Ravenstonedale/Orton fells area). It appears to be a small native-tradition agricultural settlement, likely occupied during the 2nd–4th centuries AD, characteristic of the dispersed upland farming communities of the region.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Such sites form part of the dense pattern of indigenous farmsteads in the Cumbrian uplands that persisted under Roman rule, supplying agricultural produce — particularly pastoral products — to the military zone along the Stainmore corridor and to forts such as Low Borrowbridge and Brough. They illustrate continuity of pre-Roman settlement traditions rather than Romanised villa development, which is largely absent from this part of the north-west.
The site is known principally from earthwork survey, comprising enclosures, hut circles and associated field systems typical of the Howgill and Orton fells group; no significant excavation appears to have been published, and the dating rests largely on morphological comparison with better-investigated sites such as Crosby Garrett and Ewe Close.
This is a Romano-British rural settlement and associated farmstead located in the upper Eden Valley in Cumbria, north-east and east of Gilts (near Ravenstonedale/Orton fells area). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement and Romano-British farmstead north-east and east of Gilts 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 Ravens Gill Romano-British farmstead (0.7 km), Burwens Romano-British settlement and associated field system (0.8 km), Howarcles Romano-British settlement (1.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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