OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 39)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Pembrokeshire: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 39 (Pembrokeshire / St Brides Bay).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal bay and island landscape landscape, characterised by St Brides Bay, west Pembrokeshire cliff coast, offshore rocks/islands and sparse coastal route settlements.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is St Brides Bay coastal promontory, island, ecclesiastical and maritime route archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

St Brides Bay Coastal Core

Terrain Archaeology

The terrain is interpreted using hachures. Relief is represented by hachures, allowing inference of ridgeways, high points, spur ends, valley approaches and likely route/crossing logic.

Main Geographic Information

Sheet 39 / N° XXXIX visible in the margin. The coastline and marine labels support a western Pembrokeshire / St Brides Bay placement. Most of the sheet is open sea, with land concentrated on the right side. Graticule labels are faint or unreadable, so WGS84 bounds are approximate and reconstructed.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 39 shows a mixed area of coastal bay and island landscape St Brides Bay, west Pembrokeshire cliff coast, offshore rocks/islands and sparse coastal route settlements . The map is useful for studying early 19th Century historic settlement patterns, Roman road alignments, early archaeological site indentification, how roads, old tracks, lanes and paths, villages, waterways and field systems related to the wider nineteenth-century landscape.

Main Geographic Features

Archaeological Predictions

Archaeological Hotspots

St Brides Bay Coastal Core is interpreted as a bay-edge settlement, landing and route landscape landscape. St David's / Ramsey Promontory Belt is interpreted as a ecclesiastical, island and promontory archaeology landscape. West Pembrokeshire Cliff Route is interpreted as a coastal high-route and lookout landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

St Brides Bay coastal route is interpreted as a coastal route corridor. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.St David's/Ramsey maritime route is interpreted as a island/coastal access route. Historic crossing points where roads, trackways or routeways converge on significant water features are widely recognised as archaeological hotspots. Crossing points often acted as gateways within the historic landscape. Because movement was channelled through these locations, archaeological evidence may occur both at the crossing itself and along the routes leading towards it, forming broader zones of archaeological potential rather than isolated sites.

Historic Gateways and Crossing Places

Solva/St Brides coastal access is a harbour/landing access. St David's/Ramsey crossing is a island/coastal access.

Main Places