OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 91)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 91 (Morecambe Bay, Furness, Lancaster and Cartmel district).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal bay and upland fringe landscape, characterised by Morecambe Bay sands, Lancaster/Lune corridor, Furness fringe and limestone/upland routeways.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Morecambe Bay sands, Lancaster/Lune corridor, Furness fringe and limestone/upland routeways archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal/marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Morecambe Bay Sands and Landing Belt, Lancaster/Lune Crossing Core

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 XCI / 91 is represented in the montage. Morecambe Bay, Lancaster, Cartmel Bay and the Furness/South Lakeland coastal district are strong visual controls.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 91 shows a mixed area of estuary coastal bay and tidal sandscoastal bay and upland fringe Morecambe Bay sands, Lancaster/Lune corridor, Furness fringe and limestone/upland routeways coastal sands, estuary mouths, low hills and South Lakeland fringe . 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

Morecambe Bay Sands and Landing Belt is interpreted as a coastal landing, salt, fishery and routeway archaeology landscape. Lancaster/Lune Crossing Core is interpreted as a Roman/medieval river crossing and road convergence landscape. Lonsdale Upland Route Belt is interpreted as a ridgeway, droveway and enclosure potential landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Morecambe Bay - Lancaster corridor is interpreted as a route/river/coastal 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.Lancaster regional route corridor is interpreted as a settlement and topographic route 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

Morecambe Bay crossing/route node is a coastal/river crossing or route node. Lancaster crossing/route node is a coastal/river crossing or route node. River Lune crossing/route node is a coastal/river crossing or route node.

Main Places