OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 76)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Pembrokeshire: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 76 (South-west Pembrokeshire, St David's Peninsula and offshore islands).

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

Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal/island landscape, characterised by island coastal margins, central upland ridge, harbours, promontories 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

Douglas Bay Harbour Core, Peel Promontory and Harbour 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 LXXVI / 76 is visible. The sheet is mostly sea, with land concentrated in the south-east quadrant. The coastline and offshore islands are characteristic of south-west Pembrokeshire around St David's, Ramsey Island, St Bride's Bay and the offshore rocks.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 76 shows a mixed area of coastal/island island coastal margins, central upland ridge, harbours, promontories and route nodes Atlantic coastline, sea-dominated sheet, headlands, islands and small coastal settlements . 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

Douglas Bay Harbour Core is interpreted as a harbour, landing, medieval/early-modern maritime archaeology landscape. Peel Promontory and Harbour Zone is interpreted as a coastal stronghold, landing and ecclesiastical/medieval archaeology landscape. Snaefell Upland Visibility Spine is interpreted as a ridgeway, beacon, route and prehistoric landscape archaeology landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Island east-west route Douglas-Peel is interpreted as a cross-island 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.Central upland ridgeway is interpreted as a ridgeway. 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

Douglas harbour/river crossing is a harbour/river crossing. Peel River Neb harbour crossing is a harbour/river crossing.

Main Places