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Ordnance Survey One-Inch First Edition Old Map covering parts of .
Please note that the modern reference map on the split screen is intended as a guide only.
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Sheet 100 shows a landscape, characterised by .
The primary archaeological theme is .
The terrain is interpreted using .
Sheet 100 shows a mixed area of . 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.
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 crossings have been funnelling people, animals and goods through the same pinch-points for millenia. Losses, repairs and discarded objects collect there. Roadside stalls and settlements often grow up to serve that traffic, adding workshop and domestic scatter beside the route.
The modern map is shown for approximate reference only. Due to the survey methods and geo-referencing limitations of the early OS Old Series maps, alignment with modern mapping may not be exact.