OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 73)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Staffordshire, Shropshire fringe, Derbyshire fringe: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 73 (Staffordshire inferred).

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Landscape and Archaeological Assessment

Landscape Classification

This sheet represents a inland/upland-lowland mixed landscape, characterised by Midlands claylands, river corridors, Cannock/Stafford uplands and road convergence zones.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Route, settlement, water-crossing, ridgeway and historic landscape archaeology inferred from Old Series morphology.. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Stafford Trent/Penk Crossing Core, Watling Street / Lichfield Corridor

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 LXXIII is clearly visible in the upper-right margin. Large county lettering 'STA...' visible across the sheet is consistent with STAFFORDSHIRE. Geographic attribution remains provisional pending detailed placename extraction and sheet-index verification.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 73 shows a mixed area of inland/upland-lowland mixed Midlands claylands, river corridors, Cannock/Stafford uplands and road convergence zones . 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

Stafford Trent/Penk Crossing Core is interpreted as a Roman/medieval crossing and road convergence archaeology landscape. Watling Street / Lichfield Corridor is interpreted as a Roman road and roadside settlement potential landscape. Cannock Chase High Ground is interpreted as a ridgeway, enclosure and visibility archaeology landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Watling Street inferred corridor is interpreted as a Roman road. 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.Stafford-Newport route is interpreted as a road/ridge 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

Stafford Trent/Penk crossing is a river crossing/road node. Watling Street watercourse crossings is a Roman-road watercourse crossing cluster.

Main Places