OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 82)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Herefordshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 82 (Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire border uplands inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a lowland/upland route landscape landscape, characterised by East Midlands river-crossing and road convergence landscape.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is East Midlands River-Crossing And Road Convergence Landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Derby Derwent Crossing and Roman Node, Nottingham Trent Crossing/Castle Node

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 LXXXII / 82 is visible. Large county lettering consistent with BRECON and MONT... is visible, with strong upland relief matching Brecknockshire/Radnorshire and the Welsh border uplands.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 82 shows a mixed area of upland borderland river valleyslowland/upland route landscape East Midlands river-crossing and road convergence landscape mountainous/upland ridges, river valleys, border country and deeply shaded relief . 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

Derby Derwent Crossing and Roman Node is interpreted as a route/river/coast convergence landscape. Nottingham Trent Crossing/Castle Node is interpreted as a route/river/coast convergence landscape. Trent-Derwent Confluence Landscape is interpreted as a ridgeway/high visibility or wetland edge landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Derby-Nottingham Trent corridor is interpreted as a Roman/medieval route or landscape 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.Derby-Ashbourne upland fringe road is interpreted as a Roman/medieval route or landscape 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.Derby-Melbourne road is interpreted as a Roman/medieval route or landscape 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

Derby Derwent crossing is a river, estuary, marsh-edge or coastal crossing. Nottingham Trent crossing is a river, estuary, marsh-edge or coastal crossing. Beeston Trent crossing is a river, estuary, marsh-edge or coastal crossing.

Main Places