- earliest known, relatively realistic depiction of the British Isles
- most likely created at Canterbury between 1025 and 1050
- probably ultimately based on a model dating from Roman times
- shows Roman names of provinces and uses Roman town symvols
- revised and updated in about 800 and again in about 1000
- East at the top as traditional for the time
- pigment on vellum
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