OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 59)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of County Antrim, North Channel / Irish Sea marine area: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 59 (County Antrim coast / North Channel inferred).

Please note that the modern reference map on the split screen is intended as a guide only.

Old Series Map Index

 

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a coastal upland landscape, characterised by West Wales coastal ridges, sea cliffs, river mouths and inland routeways.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Welsh coastal headland, harbour, ridgeway and promontory enclosure archaeology. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

West Wales Coastal Headland Belt, River Mouth / Estuary 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 LIX / N° LIX is visible in the upper-right margin and sheet number 59 is visible at lower-left. The sheet is dominated by sea on the left and the north-eastern Irish / Antrim coast on the right. Bounds are reconstructed from visible coastline, relief and settlement controls; graticule labels are faint and not fully readable.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 59 shows a mixed area of coastal upland West Wales coastal ridges, sea cliffs, river mouths and inland routeways . 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

West Wales Coastal Headland Belt is interpreted as a promontory enclosure, lookout and coastal route potential landscape. River Mouth / Estuary Node is interpreted as a landing, ford and medieval harbour potential landscape. Inland Ridgeway Belt is interpreted as a upland route and defended enclosure potential landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

coastal headland route 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.inland ridge route is interpreted as a ridgeway 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 inlet crossing is a estuary/stream mouth crossing.

Main Places