OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 34)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 34 (Wiltshire / Salisbury Plain inferred).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a inland ridge-and-valley landscape, characterised by Devon/Cornwall border rivers, moorland fringes, inland road convergence and hachured ridges.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Devon/Cornwall inland route, river crossing and moor-edge archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Launceston/Tamar Border 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 number 34 and N° XXXIV are visible. The map is an inland Wessex/Wiltshire sheet; graticule labels are faint, so coordinates are reconstructed from sheet geometry, visible geography, and neighbouring sheet relationships.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 34 shows a mixed area of inland ridge-and-valley Devon/Cornwall border rivers, moorland fringes, inland road convergence and hachured ridges . 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

Launceston/Tamar Border Node is interpreted as a castle/market town and river crossing landscape landscape. Okehampton Moor-edge Route Zone is interpreted as a moor-edge route and enclosure landscape landscape. Tamar Tributary Crossing Belt is interpreted as a border river crossing and route corridor landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Launceston-Okehampton corridor is interpreted as a Roman/medieval border 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.Okehampton-Crediton route is interpreted as a inland 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

Launceston/Tamar crossing is a river/border crossing. Okehampton Okement crossing is a river/moor-edge crossing.

Main Places