Summary

Enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British farmsteads 275m south east of Hatton Rock Farm.

Source: Historic England

Details

This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 3 June 2015. This record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our oldest designation records. As such they do not yet have the full descriptions of their modernised counterparts available. Please contact us if you would like further information.

This monument includes enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British farmsteads situated on the south east facing slopes of a spur overlooking the valley of the River Avon. The farmsteads survive as entirely buried structures, layers and deposits visible as crop and soil marks on aerial photographs with no surface remains. At least three clearly defined rectangular enclosures complete with internal features including probable roundhouses are visible separated by track ways, with additional enclosures, linear features, pit alignments and scatters of pits in a complex series of features.

Further archaeological remains in the vicinity are scheduled separately.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

Later Iron Age and Romano-British occupation included a range of settlement types. The surviving remains comprise farmsteads, hamlets, villages and hillforts, which together demonstrate an important sequence of settlement. The non-defensive enclosed farm or homestead represents the smallest and simplest of these types. Most early examples are characterised by a curvilinear enclosure with circular domestic buildings and associated agricultural structures. Where excavated, these sites are also found to contain pits or rectangular post- built structures for the storage of grain and other produce, evidence of an organised and efficient farming system. The surrounding enclosures would have provided protection against cattle rustling and tribal raiding. The simple farmsteads are sometimes superseded by rectilinear or triangular shaped enclosures with rectilinear buildings and many examples were occupied over an extended period and some grew in size and complexity. In central and southern England, most enclosed Iron Age farmsteads are situated in areas which are now under intensive arable cultivation. As a result, although some examples survive with upstanding earthworks, the majority have been recorded as crop- and soil-marks appearing on aerial photographs. Despite cultivation the enclosed Iron Age or Romano-British farmsteads 275m south east of Hatton Rock Farm survive comparatively well and will contain archaeological and environmental evidence relating to their construction, development, longevity, relative chronologies and interrelationships, social organisation, agricultural practices, domestic arrangements and overall landscape context.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
PastScape 333164
Warwickshire HER 954 and 6265

Source: Historic England