Old Viking Map of Great Britain in 1645 by Jan Jansson - Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy In England, Scotland & Wales Size:24x36in (60x90cm) Blaeu consulted many other maps

Blaeu consulted many other maps of Africa to create this one - and those source maps themselves were inaccurate

villages and cities in Essex are already visible in this map

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including Skye

Old Viking Map of Great Britain in 1645 by Jan Jansson - Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy In England, Scotland & Wales Size:24x36in (60x90cm) Blaeu consulted many other mapsThis is one of the oldest, finest and most fascinating maps of Great Britain, showing the nation as it was during Saxon times in 500 700 AD an era known as the Heptarchy, as England and Wales were split into 7 Angle Saxon kingdoms. The map was engraved by Jan Jansson in 1645, and it looks very similar to the John Speed and Saxton maps of the British Isles. This is an extremely fine copy of a rare map it's unusual to find a map this old that has been