OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 64)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Rutland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire fringe, Huntingdonshire/Cambridgeshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 64 (Peterborough and Stamford inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a lowland county with ridge and fen-edge landscape, characterised by Rutland market-town landscape, Welland valley crossings, parkland and eastern fen-edge drainage.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Rutland Roman-road, Welland crossing, villa/estate and fen-edge archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Great Casterton/Stamford Roman Road Belt, Oakham/Uppingham Ridge Estate 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

Sheet LXIV / N° LXIV is visible in the upper-right margin and the sheet number 64 is visible at lower-left. Large RUTLAND lettering is visible across the western/central sheet, with regular fen drainage and south Lincolnshire / Peterborough controls toward the east. Bounds are reconstructed from sheet-index geometry and identifiable settlement/landscape controls; graticule labels are faint or not reliably readable.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 64 shows a mixed area of lowland county with ridge and fen-edge Rutland market-town landscape, Welland valley crossings, parkland and eastern fen-edge drainage . 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

Great Casterton/Stamford Roman Road Belt is interpreted as a Roman road and Welland crossing landscape landscape. Oakham/Uppingham Ridge Estate Belt is interpreted as a villa/estate and medieval market landscape landscape. Eastern Fen-edge Drainage Belt is interpreted as a wetland-edge settlement, saltern/agricultural drainage potential landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Stamford-Great Casterton-Oakham corridor is interpreted as a Roman road 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.Oakham-Uppingham ridge route is interpreted as a ridge/market 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.Welland valley route is interpreted as a river valley 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

Stamford/Great Casterton Welland crossing is a Roman road/river crossing. Uppingham ridge crossing node is a ridge route node.

Main Places