Detail View: Charting The Nation: Sutherland, Strath Okel, & Strath Charron [1 of 1]

Work Record ID: 
0042216
Shelfmark: 
Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 10)
Holding Institution: 
National Library of Scotland
Title: 
Sutherland, Strath Okel, & Strath Charron
Creator: 
Gordon, Robert (b.1580, d.1661)
Creator Role: 
Mapmaker
Creator: 
Pont, Timothy (b.1564, d.Circa 1614)
Creator Role: 
Surveyor
Creator: 
Sibbald, Robert (b.1641, d.1722)
Creator Role: 
Associated Person
Date: 
1630-1653
Description: 
A map of southeast Sutherland, including Strath Brora, Strath Oykel and Strath Carron. There is much pre-clearance settlement detail, particularly of the two more southern Straths. The coverage and content of this manuscript map by Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580-1661) and of Blaeu's map of 'Southerlandia' first published in his 'Atlas Novus' in 1654, are so similar that they must have been compiled from the same source. They were compiled from a manuscript map of Caithness compiled by Timothy Pont from observations on the ground in the last two decades of the sixteenth century and subsequently lost.
Work Type: 
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement: 
34 x 27cm (1' 1 3/8" x 10 5/8")
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Pen and ink
Subject Place: 
Caithness
Subject Place: 
Dornoch Firth
Subject Place: 
Scotland
Subject Place: 
Strath Oykel
Subject Place: 
Strathcarron
Subject Place: 
Sutherland
Subject Place: 
Tain
Reference: 
Taylor, Alexander B., 'Manuscript maps of Pont, the Gordons and Adair in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh',Scottish Geographical Magazine, Nov., 1907, p.584.
Rights Statement: 
© 2002 The National Library of Scotland
Repro File Type: 
Cropped Tiff
Repro File Size (bytes): 
61821890
Repro Notes: 
10
Repro Title: 
Sutherland, Strath Okel, & Strath Charron [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels): 
5904 x 5728
Repro ID Number: 
0042216c.tif
Repro Old ID Number: 
00000280
Repro Capture Date: 
10/05/2000