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English: A black and white reprint (15×12.5 inches) of Charles Bertram's map from his forged account The Description of Britain (Latin: De Situ Britanniae).

→→→A historical forgery and not to be used as an accurate map.←←←

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Mappa Britanniae Facie i Romanae Secundum Fidem Monumentorum Pervertum Depicta

Tabulam hanc Geographicam Antiquitatis Patriae Cimelium celeberrimo viro Gulielmo Stukeley M.D., C.L.M., F.R.S.eet observantiae testandae ergo D. D. Carolus Bertramus 1755.
C. Bertramus ipse delin: ab orig. & sculpsit.

[motto:] Si Sit Rudent


Printed for White & Co. Horace's Head Fleet Street June 1.1809.

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Source Charles Bertram's "mappa britanniæ facie i romanæ secvndvm fidem monvmentorvm pervertervm depicta" (Copenhagen: 1755), published in color in Britannicarum Gentium Historiæ Antiquæ Scriptores Tres: Richardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis [Three Authors of the Ancient History of the Britannic People: Richard the Corinese, Gildas the Badonic, Nennius the Bangorian] (Copenhagen: 1757), reprinted in black and white in The Description of Britain, Translated from Richard of Cirencester: with the Original Treatise De Situ Britanniæ; and a Commentary on the Itinerary; Illustrated with Maps (London: 1809), p. xxv.
Author Charles Bertram
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