OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 58)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Isle of Man (not an English county), parish labels/districts: German, Patrick, Michael, Lezayre inferred: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 58 (Irish Sea / Isle of Man west and central districts inferred).

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Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal fragment and sea landscape, characterised by mostly sea sheet with a small Welsh coastal strip, headlands and possible landing places.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Coastal landing, headland and maritime archaeological potential. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Small Coastal Landing Zone, Coastal Headland Watch 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

Sheet LVIII / N° LVIII is visible in the upper-right margin and the sheet number 58 is visible at lower-left. The sheet is mostly Irish Sea, with western/central Isle of Man land shown in the lower-right quadrant. Bounds are reconstructed from the visible coastline and parish/settlement controls; graticule labels are faint and not fully readable.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 58 shows a mixed area of coastal fragment and sea mostly sea sheet with a small Welsh coastal strip, headlands and possible landing places . 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

Small Coastal Landing Zone is interpreted as a possible harbour, fishing and landing activity landscape. Coastal Headland Watch Zone is interpreted as a lookout, beacon or promontory activity potential landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

coastal path fragment is interpreted as a coastal 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

coastal stream mouth candidate is a stream mouth/landing.

Main Places