The Gough Map Revisited: Thomas Butler's <i>The Mape off Ynglonnd</i>, <i>c</i>.1547–1554

Birkholz, Daniel

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“…It appears that the erosion of the two islands was completed by the mid-16 th century, as the islands do not appear on later maps, such as Thomas Butler's Mape of Ynglonnd dated to 1547 -1554 (Birkholz 2006). Therefore, the disappearance of the two 'lost' islands may represent a stage in the gradual planation and removal from Cardigan Bay of the top decametres of unconsolidated Quaternary deposits due to marine action operating on the Holocene sea-level high-stand, a process that has not yet been fully completed, as substantial areas of Quaternary deposits remain as terraces and exposed in cliffs along the Cardigan Bay coast as observed in the field seaward of the relict pre-glacial coastline (e.g.…”

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The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe

Haslett

Willis

2022

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A 13th –14th-century map held in the Bodleian Library (the Gough Map and the oldest map of Great Britain) shows two ‘lost’ islands in Cardigan Bay offshore west Wales, United Kingdom. This study investigates historical sources, alongside geological and bathymetric evidence, and proposes a model of post-glacial coastal evolution that provides an explanation for the ‘lost’ islands and a hypothetical framework for future research: (1) during the Pleistocene, Irish Sea ice occupied the area from the north and west, and Welsh ice from the east, (2) a landscape of unconsolidated Pleistocene deposits developed seaward of a relict pre-Quaternary cliffline with a land surface up to ca. 30 m above present sea-level, (3) erosion proceeded along the lines of a template provided by a retreating shoreline affected by Holocene sea-level rise, shore-normal rivers, and surface run-off from the relict cliffline and interfluves, (4) dissection established islands occupying cores of the depositional landscape, and (5) continued down-wearing, marginal erosion and marine inundation(s) removed the two remaining islands by the 16th century. Literary evidence and folklore traditions provide support in that Cardigan Bay is associated with the ‘lost’ lowland of Cantre’r Gwaelod. The model offers potential for further understanding post-glacial evolution of similar lowlands along northwest European coastlines.

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“…Smallwood 2009). It has also been suggested that it is based on an earlier original estimated to date from around 1280 with the surviving version being a revised copy (Birkholz 2004(Birkholz , 2006.…”

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The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe

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Willis

2022

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The Spanish Gough maps: first pre-postal maps of the Iberian Peninsula in its European context

Pablo-Martí,

López-Requena

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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In this paper, we study two singular maps, the Modern Map of Spain, attributed to Cardinal Margarit, and Spagna con le distantie de li loci; made in northern Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Like the British Gough map, both already show communication networks with expressed distances. Using formal analysis, statistical methodology, and computer processing, we present the cartographic characteristics of each one and relate them to their historical context, updating the scarce information available until now. We explain their relationship as two milestones of the same cartographic process. At the same time, we study the routes represented, finding out the units of measurement used and the communication networks that both maps show us in the context of the Revolution of Communications that the Renaissance represented in Europe. The research has allowed us to attribute a new dating to them, question the traditional authorship, and advance a theory on the transport networks’ functionality, demonstrating that both maps are part of a cartographic and historical process at the European level. All these updates to the vision on the first maps of communications in Western Europe established new contributions to the relationship between maps and itineraries. It contributes to filling a void occupied in solitary, until now, by the map of Gough of Great Britain.

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The Gough Map Revisited: Thomas Butler's The Mape off Ynglonnd, c.1547–1554

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The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe

The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe

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The Spanish Gough maps: first pre-postal maps of the Iberian Peninsula in its European context

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