Ewanrigg, on the Cumbrian coast just inland from Maryport, is a Romano-British rural settlement associated with a trackway, lying within the hinterland of the Roman fort and vicus at Alauna (Maryport). It appears to have been a small native-style farmstead or enclosed settlement, broadly active during the 2nd to 4th centuries AD, when the surrounding coastal zone was densely occupied under the military presence of the Cumberland Coast frontier system.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its importance lies in showing the persistence of indigenous-style settlement immediately adjacent to a major auxiliary fort, contributing to our understanding of how local farming communities supplied and interacted with the Hadrianic coastal garrisons. Sites like Ewanrigg help fill out the largely under-documented civilian landscape behind the Cumbrian limes.
Ewanrigg, on the Cumbrian coast just inland from Maryport, is a Romano-British rural settlement associated with a trackway, lying within the hinterland of the Roman fort and vicus at Alauna (Maryport). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Romano-British settlement and trackway at Ewanrigg 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 Rise How tower 25a, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast including remains of prehistoric burial mound and early medieval kiln (0.8 km), Roman cremation cemetery, 380m south east of Maryport Roman fort (2 km), Alauna/Alione (2.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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