OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 70)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Lincolnshire, Kesteven, Nottinghamshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 70 (Kesteven / Sleaford and Grantham inferred).

Please note that the modern reference map on the split screen is intended as a guide only.

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a inland/upland-lowland mixed landscape, characterised by low Wealden ridges, clay vales, route corridors and marsh-edge land.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Route, settlement, water-crossing, ridgeway and historic landscape archaeology inferred from Old Series morphology.. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Weald Ridgeway and Ironworking Belt, Romney Marsh Edge 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

Sheet LXX / N° LXX is visible in the upper-right margin and sheet number 70 is visible at lower-left. Large KESTEVEN SHIRE lettering is visible across the sheet. Bounds are reconstructed from Kesteven geography, Grantham/Sleaford/Bourne controls, the fen-edge drainage pattern, neighbouring sheet relationships and OS Old Series sheet-index geometry; engraved graticule labels are faint or not reliably readable.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 70 shows a mixed area of inland/upland-lowland mixed low Wealden ridges, clay vales, route corridors and marsh-edge land . 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

Weald Ridgeway and Ironworking Belt is interpreted as a ridgeway, woodland industry and prehistoric/Roman route archaeology landscape. Romney Marsh Edge Settlement Belt is interpreted as a marsh-edge, landing, saltern and route archaeology landscape. Ashford Road Convergence Core is interpreted as a road convergence and possible Roman roadside activity landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Weald east-west ridge route is interpreted as a ridgeway/trackway. 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.Medway-Weald 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

Ashford / Great Stour crossing zone is a river crossing/road node. Rother-Marsh fringe crossing zone is a marsh-edge crossing.

Main Places