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 inland/upland-lowland mixed landscape, characterised by river valleys, low ridges, borderland route corridors and hachured upland fringes.

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

Hereford Wye Crossing Core, Lugg Valley Route 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 inland/upland-lowland mixed river valleys, low ridges, borderland route corridors and hachured upland fringes . 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

Hereford Wye Crossing Core is interpreted as a Roman/medieval river crossing, urban and route convergence archaeology landscape. Lugg Valley Route Belt is interpreted as a river-valley settlements, crossings and villa/farmstead potential landscape. Golden Valley Border Route is interpreted as a ridge/valley route and frontier settlement potential landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Wye valley corridor 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.Leominster-Hereford Roman road inference is interpreted as a straight road/road convergence. 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

Hereford Wye crossing is a major river crossing. Leominster/Lugg crossing is a river crossing/road node.

Main Places