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D-shaped Romano-British settlement and enclosure, Forcegarth Pasture North, Forest-in-Teesdale (Forest-in-Teesdale)

AI reference: 151880
AI reference: 151880
This is a Romano-British settlement and D-shaped enclosure surrounds a group of several round buildings. Two further round house foundations stand outside the enclosure. Nearby, the remains of a large field system still stands. Excavations showed that the site was built in the 2nd century AD (1).

A Roman period native settlement situated at Force Garth, in Upper Teesdale. The settlement is visible as a rubble banked enclosure at a bend in Smithy Sike. Within the enclosure are the remains of a complex of circular, oval and rectangular buildings, forming an 'L'-shape. Two hut circles outside the enclosure on its north side are partly obscured by stone dumped in 1945. The settlement was partly excavated in 1972-4. Finds from the excavation included an animal bone, spindle whorls, coarse pottery and quern stone fragments. Charcoal from the excavation was radio-carbon dated to about the 1st century AD. Scheduled (16).

D3108
Roman (43 to 410)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
21st Century (2001 to 2100)
Scheduled Monument
  • National Heritage List for England Entry Number: 1017124
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
Excavation at Forcegarth Pasture (North), Forest in Teesdale, 1972-73; Middleton St George College


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