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

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of : Old Series map of .

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal lowland fragment landscape, characterised by low coastal strip, sands, marsh-edge settlement and North Sea frontage.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is East Anglian coastal marsh, landing, fishery and wetland-edge archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Coastal Marsh Settlement Belt

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

Main Landscape Features

Sheet shows a mixed area of coastal lowland fragment low coastal strip, sands, marsh-edge settlement and North Sea frontage . 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

Coastal Marsh Settlement Belt is interpreted as a wetland-edge settlement and saltern potential landscape. North Sea Landing/Sandbank Zone is interpreted as a coastal landing, fishery and wreck-risk landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

East Anglia coastal route fragment is interpreted as a coastal marsh-edge 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

coastal marsh causeway/crossing candidate is a marsh-edge crossing.

Main Places