OS One-Inch Old Series / First Edition Map Viewer (Sheet 84)

Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map of Lincolnshire: Old Series map of OS Old Series Map Sheet 84 (East Lincolnshire coast, Skegness and Wainfleet district 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/estuarine landscape, characterised by coastal plain, estuary mouth and wetland-edge landscape.

Archaeological Landscape

The primary archaeological theme is Coastal Plain, Estuary Mouth And Wetland-Edge Landscape. Enhanced prediction from Roman-road, ridgeway, hillfort/enclosure, villa/estate, road-convergence, coastal, marsh-edge and river-crossing logic.

High Visibility Locations

Holderness Coastal Erosion Belt, Humber Mouth Maritime/Marsh Edge

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 LXXXIV / 84 is visible. The right half is dominated by sea and the left by the Lincolnshire coastal strip. Large LIN... lettering is visible and the coast/drainage pattern is consistent with east Lincolnshire.

Main Landscape Features

Sheet 84 shows a mixed area of coastal marsh and reclaimed fencoastal/estuarine coastal plain, estuary mouth and wetland-edge landscape flat coastal marshland, reclaimed fen, drainage channels and North Sea shoreline . 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

Holderness Coastal Erosion Belt is interpreted as a ridgeway/high visibility or wetland edge landscape. Humber Mouth Maritime/Marsh Edge is interpreted as a ridgeway/high visibility or wetland edge landscape. Beverley Road Convergence Fringe is interpreted as a ridgeway/high visibility or wetland edge landscape.

Historic Routes, Crossings and Connections

Beverley-Holderness coastal road is interpreted as a Roman/medieval route or landscape 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.Humber estuary-edge corridor is interpreted as a Roman/medieval route or landscape 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

Humber mouth maritime crossing/landing is a river, estuary, marsh-edge or coastal crossing. Holderness creek/marsh-edge crossings is a river, estuary, marsh-edge or coastal crossing.

Main Places