OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 62)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 62 (Birmingham, south Staffordshire and north Warwickshire inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a lowland urban/industrial route landscape landscape, characterised by Birmingham and Black Country route convergence, river valleys, ridges and early industrial settlement morphology.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Birmingham/Black Country road convergence, medieval market, Roman route and industrial landscape archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Birmingham Route Convergence Core, Dudley Ridge/Castle Zone

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 LXII / N° LXII is visible in the upper-right margin and the sheet number 62 is visible at lower-left. Large SHIRE county lettering is visible across the sheet, and Birmingham is readable in the lower half. Bounds are reconstructed from sheet-index geometry, adjacent Sheet LXI relationship, major settlement pattern and county lettering; graticule labels are faint.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 62 shows a mixed area of lowland urban/industrial route landscape Birmingham and Black Country route convergence, river valleys, ridges and early industrial settlement morphology . 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

Birmingham Route Convergence Core is interpreted as a major road, market and river-valley convergence landscape. Dudley Ridge/Castle Zone is interpreted as a ridge settlement, castle and industrial archaeology landscape. Sutton/Tame Valley Belt is interpreted as a Roman/medieval route and river crossing landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Birmingham-Walsall-Wolverhampton corridor is interpreted as a road convergence / Roman-medieval 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.Birmingham-Dudley-Stourbridge corridor is interpreted as a ridge/industrial 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.Birmingham-Tamworth route is interpreted as a north-east 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.

Historic Gateways and Crossing Places

Birmingham Rea/Tame crossing zone is a urban river/route crossing. Tamworth/Tame fringe crossing is a river crossing fringe. Stourbridge Stour crossing is a river crossing.

Main Places