| The native Britons built a settlement here in the Roman period, between the vallum and Hadrian's Wall. The settlement is made up of a rectangular enclosure with hut circles inside. The enclosure wall was made of large boulders and is about two metres wide and still stands 80 centimetres high. The largest hut stands at the centre of the enclosure and has ruined walls 40 centimetres high. When the settlement was excavated in 1937, archaeologists found pottery dating to the second century AD. Around the settlement are traces of other earthworks that may be part of a field system. This is a Scheduled Monument protected by law. See also:
Source of Reference
Local History of Henshaw
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