{"id":1807092,"date":"2022-04-28T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1807092"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:13:04","slug":"the-gough-map-and-its-ghostly-predecessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/04\/the-gough-map-and-its-ghostly-predecessor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gough Map and Its Ghostly Predecessor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Gough Map. Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An update<\/a> on the Gough Map Project<\/a> from Bill Shannon. \u201cThe Gough Map Project<\/a> 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. It is now time to reach some firm conclusions, and start writing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among other things, the Gough Map appears to be a copy of, and updated from, an earlier (\u201cghost\u201d) map:<\/p>\n

And so, we now have still more questions as we turn over the possible scenarios. If the copying was done in the early years of Henry IV, when was the Predecessor made? And where? And why? And why was our copy made\u2014<\/em>and where? And, what about that shipwreck? And, especially, what about those red lines previously interpreted as \u201croads\u201d: it seems quite clear that these were not on the Predecessor, which means it never was a road map. Indeed, as we have progressed, we have realised those red lines are, at best, routes. […] But one thing we feel sure of: Mr Gough\u2019s map was never a high-quality, show-piece display object; it was a back-room, practical, work-a-day thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

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… 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-1807092","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":1808875,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/the-gough-map-and-the-lost-islands-of-cardigan-bay\/","url_meta":{"origin":1807092,"position":0},"title":"The Gough Map and the Lost Islands of Cardigan Bay","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 September 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"A paper in Atlantic Geoscience is basically arguing that the Gough Map offers evidence that the Welsh legend of the sunken kingdom of Cantre\u2019r Gwaelod \u2014a sort of Welsh Atlantis\u2014is real. 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