{"id":1787598,"date":"2019-08-15T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787598"},"modified":"2019-08-15T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:24:19","slug":"understanding-the-gough-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/understanding-the-gough-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Gough Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Gough Map. Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Much study has been devoted to the Gough Map<\/a>, a late medieval map of Great Britain, exact date and authorship unknown, that was donated to the Bodleian Library in 1809 by the map\u2019s now-namesake, Richard Gough. (An interactive version<\/a> is available online.) A new project<\/a> led by Catherine Delano-Smith and Nick Millea explores the map on several levels: as physical object<\/em>, combining hyperspectral imagery, pigment analysis and 3D scanning; the process of how the map was drawn (and redrawn); and a close analysis of the places and names found on the map. Some of the project\u2019s early findings were published in Imago<\/em> in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously: The Gough Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much study has been devoted to the Gough Map, a late medieval map of Great Britain, exact date and authorship unknown, that was donated to the Bodleian Library in 1809 by the map\u2019s now-namesake, Richard… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[405,1364,995,949],"class_list":["post-1787598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-conservation","tag-gough-map","tag-great-britain","tag-medieval-cartography","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1807092,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/04\/the-gough-map-and-its-ghostly-predecessor\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787598,"position":0},"title":"The Gough Map and Its Ghostly Predecessor","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 April 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"An update on the Gough Map Project from Bill Shannon. \u201cThe Gough Map Project has reached that \u2018interesting\u2019 stage where we are moving from either sitting on the fence and making no decisions, or making lots, but then rejecting them all. 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