Mr Spencer-Jones discovered that five of the oldest maps in the collection had been made by one of Scotland's leading mapmakers, Peter May, in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

The old maps show the estates once controlled by a clan chief known as the Old ... Maps show land confiscated from Old Fox. 28 March 2019. Share Save. ... Volunteers scanning one of the Lovat ...

The department also has 100-year-old maps of peth areas in Pune city and the oldest map of Mahabaleshwar. Besides, the commissionerate has over four crore property cards and related land records ...

A 400-year-old map showing parts of York as they were in the early 17th Century has gone on public display. Samuel Parson's 1624 map of Dringhouses and the Knavesmire is one of the oldest in York ...

The release of a seven decades-old map thought to indicate where Nazi soldiers stashed millions of Euros in treasure during World War II has set off a wild treasure hunt in the Netherlands — … ...

The map is located in Madaba, Jordan, and depicts a total of 157 sites—many of which have yet to be found. One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to ...

Now one can compare the bearings of those stone wall-defined boundaries relative to magnetic north and true north today. The difference shows that the magnetic declination at this location in 1768 ...