Circular enclosure, Forcegarth Pasture South, Forest-in-Teesdale (Forest-in-Teesdale)

AI reference: 151881

A circular Romano-British enclosure at this site contains the remains of at least five round houses. Two of the houses were excavated. In at least one case the stone foundations replaced the remains of an earlier wooden structure. A radiocarbon date showed that the site was built in the late 1st or early 2nd century AD (1) and finds confirmed dates of 1st to 3rd centuries AD (3).

A Romano period native settlement situated at Force Garth, in Upper Teesdale. The settlement occupies a large artificial scoop in the hillside, enclosed by a rubble bank. Inside this enclosure are five small scoops, each about 7 metres in diameter. Excavation has shown that they are the sites of hut circles. Finds from the excavations include spindle whorls, saddle querns and rotary querns, and pottery, including some Roman Samian Ware. Scheduled (17).

Reference number:

D3107

Historical period:

Roman (43 to 410)

Legal status:

Scheduled Monument
• National Heritage List for England Entry Number: 1017124

Event(s):

Survey at Force Garth Pasture, Teesdale 2011; Oxford Archaeology North doi:10.5284/1018779
RCHME: Durham SAMs Project 1991; Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England

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