OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 4)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Kent, Sussex: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 4 (Romney Marsh / Dungeness inferred).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal marsh landscape, characterised by reclaimed wetland, shingle foreland and medieval port landscape.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Reclaimed coastal marsh and former maritime settlement landscape. Medieval port, salt-working, drainage and shingle-headland archaeology

High Visibility Locations

Dungeness, Hythe escarpment fringe

Terrain Archaeology

The terrain is interpreted using hachures and marsh/drainage depiction. Low relief is shown more through drainage, coastline and marsh morphology than hachure shading.

Main Geographic Information

Mostly sea with mapped land in upper-left; bounds approximate and should be refined against graticule if higher-resolution labels are available

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 4 shows a mixed area of coastal marsh reclaimed wetland, shingle foreland and medieval port landscape . 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

Romney Marsh Settlement Belt is interpreted as a marsh-edge and reclaimed-wetland occupation corridor landscape. Dungeness Shingle Headland is interpreted as a coastal resource and navigation landscape landscape. Rye-Rother Estuary is interpreted as a port and riverine settlement zone landscape. Lydd/Dengemarsh Zone is interpreted as a marsh settlement and coastal grazing landscape landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Hythe-New Romney-Lydd Coastal Corridor is interpreted as a coastal route and reclaimed marsh transport 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.Rye-Appledore-Romney Marsh Corridor is interpreted as a estuary-to-marsh-edge movement 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

Rye Rother Crossing is a river/estuary crossing and port access. Appledore Marsh-edge Crossing is a marsh-edge ford/bridge candidate. New Romney Drainage Crossings is a drainage-channel crossing cluster.

Main Places