OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 37)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Isle of Wight: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 37 (Dorset / Hampshire coast).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal peninsula and bay landscape, characterised by Gower, Swansea Bay, estuary sands, coastal routeways and upland/river-valley approaches.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Gower/Swansea Bay promontory, estuary, cave/cliff and routeway archaeological landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Gower Promontory Belt

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 37 / N° XXXVII visible. The coastal configuration supports a Dorset and Hampshire south-coast placement. Graticule labels are not reliably readable, so WGS84 bounds are approximate and reconstructed.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 37 shows a mixed area of coastal peninsula and bay Gower, Swansea Bay, estuary sands, coastal routeways and upland/river-valley approaches . 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

Gower Promontory Belt is interpreted as a coastal promontory, cave and enclosure landscape landscape. Swansea Bay / Tawe Node is interpreted as a harbour, river crossing and route convergence landscape. Burry Inlet Wetland Edge is interpreted as a estuary sands, crossing and coastal settlement zone landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Gower coastal route is interpreted as a coastal/promontory 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.Burry-Swansea estuary route is interpreted as a estuary-edge 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

Swansea/Tawe crossing is a river/harbour crossing. Burry Inlet crossing/access is a estuary sands crossing.

Main Places