Roman period native settlement near Coldwell (Kirkwhelpington)
Aerial vierw of the Roman period farmstead at Coldwell. Photo © Tim Gates.
Approximately 2000 years ago, during what archaeologists call the Roman period, people lived in a roughly rectangular enclosure here, surrounded by a ditch with a bank on either side. Inside the enclosure, the remains of a stone round house can be seen today. This is a Scheduled Monument protected by law.
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FIELD SURVEY, Some rectilinear settlements of the Roman period in Northumberland; Further notes on rectilinear earthworks in Northumberland: some Medieval and Later settlements 1960
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; D Smith
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1968; D Smith
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