OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 16)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of : Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 16 (Poole and Dorset).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal ridge and bay landscape landscape, characterised by river mouths, cliffs, valleys and harbour settlements.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is West Dorset coastal route, harbour and promontory landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Bridport / West Bay River-Mouth 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

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 16 shows a mixed area of coastal ridge and bay landscape river mouths, cliffs, valleys and harbour 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

Bridport / West Bay River-Mouth Zone is interpreted as a port, river-mouth and route convergence zone landscape. Lyme Bay Coastal Cliff Belt is interpreted as a coastal lookout and promontory archaeology landscape. Marshwood Vale Edge is interpreted as a villa/farmstead and valley route zone landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

West Dorset coastal route is interpreted as a coastal Roman/medieval 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.Bridport-Beaminster valley corridor is interpreted as a river valley inland 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.

Historic Gateways and Crossing Places

Bridport River Brit crossing is a river crossing / port hinterland node. Charmouth/Char crossing is a coastal river crossing.

Main Places