Roman Britain (Historical Map and Guide): 7

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There are two sets of air photographs. One is held at the National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP) in Scotland, and the second has been entrusted to Oxford University to support global climate change research.

Other agencies’ editions in series produced jointly by DOS, national mapping agencies and British Military Survey A small-scale guide to this photography is included in the DOS Annual Reports from 1951 to 1984, to be held by The National Archives (TNA). Other photography in the collection is shown on non-DOS cover diagrams or sortie plots produced by the originator of the photography. Summary diagrams for each country illustrate the location of all photography. The principal points of photos used in the mapping are shown and numbered on almost all DOS 1:50 000–1:125 000 scale topographic maps and provide accurate indications of the location of individual photos. Air photo mosaics and print laydowns (uncontrolled mosaics produced as map substitutes on standard sheetlines in advance of the regular mapping) are archived at the National Collection of Aerial Photography. Although most of the maps are topographic, there are significant holdings of geological and land use mapping. Other thematic maps include climate, soils, and population.

HereWeGo is not the best known, but provides both mapping and recent aerial photo coverage. The layers control to access the aerial imagery is in the bottom right corner of the screen Lecture & Seminar Series

In Britannia, [2] as in other provinces, the Romans constructed a network of paved trunk roads to (surfaced highways). In their nearly four centuries of occupation (43 – 410 AD) they built about 2,000 miles of Roman roads in Britain. They are shown on the Ordnance Survey's Map of Roman Britain. [3] This is the most accurate and up-to-date layout of certain and probable routes that is available to the general public.

Historical maps of Great Britain

The directions for making pavements given by Vitruvius. The pavement and the via munita were identical in construction, except as regards the top layer. The MCCs, organised by 1:100 000 scale map sheet numbers (½˚ squares – technically not ‘square,’ but normally referred to as such), give current and superseded coordinates for every point that is plotted on the MCDs. This includes heights (ground level and station mark) and references to the files that contain its coordinates, station descriptions and photo identifications. Primary triangulation and traverse areas A guide to main areas of primary triangulation and traverse, and secondary and minor control established by Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS), is provided in the DOS Annual Reports from 1959 to 1984. We are a not for profit society that is free to join aimed at the study of roads and maps of the UK and Ireland.