OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 15)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of HASH(0x5626ea222658), HASH(0x5626ea222778), HASH(0x5626ea2227d8): Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 15 (Sussex / Surrey Weald inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a ridge-and-valley upland landscape, characterised by chalk/greensand escarpments, wooded chase and river valley crossings.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Dorset/Somerset border ridgeway, hilltop and river crossing landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Shaftesbury Hilltop 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 XV has no supplied detail crop. Large SUSSEX lettering and a partial/visible FOREST label support the Wealden placement. Bounds are reconstructed from sheet-index position, adjacent Sheet VIII/VI/V geometry, and visible terrain/county labels.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 15 shows a mixed area of ridge-and-valley upland chalk/greensand escarpments, wooded chase and river valley crossings . 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

Shaftesbury Hilltop Zone is interpreted as a hilltop settlement and defended-site potential landscape. Stour Valley Crossing Belt is interpreted as a river crossing and villa/estate corridor landscape. Cranborne Chase Fringe is interpreted as a wooded/chalk upland enclosure landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Shaftesbury-Stour Valley route corridor is interpreted as a ridge-to-river Roman/medieval 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.Cranborne Chase high-route corridor is interpreted as a prehistoric/Roman high-route candidate. 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

Sturminster Newton Stour Crossing is a river crossing town. Gillingham river crossing cluster is a river/stream crossing cluster.

Main Places