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Carlisle Library : Map 293
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Road map, uncoloured engraving, the Antonine Itineraries through Britain, scale about 55 miles to 1 inch, plotted by William Stukeley, 1723, published London, 1724.
The map was published in Itinerarium Curiosum by William Stukeley, and in A New Description of England and Wales by Herman Moll, both 1724.
   Stukeley 1723
map feature:- picture frame cartouche & up is N & lat and long scales & scale line & sea plain & coast shaded & rivers & settlements (roman) & roman roads & roman sites
inscription:- printed title cartouche
In gratiam Itinerantium / Curiosorum, ANTONINI / Aug. ITINERARIUM per / BRITANNIAM. / tentavit W. Stukeley 1723.
scale line:- 80 roman miles = 52.1 mm
wxh, sheet:- 28x31.5cm
wxh, map:- 245x273mm
scale:- 1 to 2400000 ? (estimated from lat long scales)
scale:- 1 to 3500000 ? (from town positions using DISTAB.exe)

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