OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 19)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 19 (Somerset / Mendip Hills inferred).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a upland and wetland-edge landscape, characterised by Mendip/limestone ridges, river valleys and Levels margin.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Mendip/Levels-edge routeway, mining and river crossing landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Mendip Fringe Mining/Resource 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

Direct image evidence shows sheet number 19 / N° XIX and large Somersetshire county lettering. Uploaded detail crop gives the Black Down meridian longitude as 2°52?22? West. Bounds are reconstructed because engraved graticule labels are faint.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 19 shows a mixed area of upland and wetland-edge Mendip/limestone ridges, river valleys and Levels margin . 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

Mendip Fringe Mining/Resource Zone is interpreted as a Roman/resource and ridgeway archaeology landscape. Somerset Levels Margin is interpreted as a wetland-edge settlement and crossing belt landscape. Frome Valley Route Node is interpreted as a river crossing and estate landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Mendip crest/resource corridor is interpreted as a prehistoric/Roman high route and mining 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.Frome-Warminster route corridor is interpreted as a Roman/medieval river-valley 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

Frome River Crossing is a river crossing town. Levels-margin crossing belt is a wetland-edge crossing/trackway candidate.

Main Places