OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 74)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 74 (South Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Borderlands inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a inland/upland-lowland mixed landscape, characterised by Pennine fringe, coalfield valleys, hachured ridges, river crossings and route nodes.

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

Sheffield-Rother Valley Crossing Core, Don Valley Corridor

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 LXXIV / 74 is visible. The sheet shows large county lettering for SHROPSHIRE and probable COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY lettering across the lower part. Heavy shaded relief and dense ridge-and-valley topography are consistent with the Welsh border uplands, Clun Forest and the Bishop's Castle/Knighton district.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 74 shows a mixed area of inland/upland-lowland mixed Pennine fringe, coalfield valleys, hachured ridges, river crossings and route nodes upland ridges, wooded valleys, border hills and deeply incised 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

Sheffield-Rother Valley Crossing Core is interpreted as a river crossing, road convergence and industrial/medieval archaeology landscape. Don Valley Corridor is interpreted as a river-valley, route and settlement archaeology landscape. Pennine Fringe Ridgeway Belt is interpreted as a ridgeway, enclosure and high-visibility archaeology landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Don 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.Rother/Chesterfield-Sheffield route is interpreted as a road/river 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

Sheffield Don crossing is a river crossing/road node. Rotherham Don crossing is a river crossing/road node.

Main Places