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Hand drawn and ancient , decorative mappa mundi.
Label on slide reads " British Museum Maps 29.b.4
ST SEVER"
Also known as the Beatus map from the Saint-Sever Beatus, produced in Saint-Sever Abbey, France in the 9th century. The map is faced…

Hand drawn and illustrated map showing Asia Minor,Arctic and Antarctica among several annotations.
Slide is titled Macrobian "Cotton" Zone Map of the tenth Century.
Language on the slide is in Latin.

Hand drawn and Illustrated map of England, Northern France, Scotland and Wales from Insularium Illustratum, Henricus Martellus Germanus.
The slide is labelled "British Museum. ADSMS. 15760 fol 94
Henricus Martellus Germanus Insularium Illustratum…

Hand drawn and illustrated map of Dartmoor.
The spelling of place names is not modern English, but includes Brent Hill, Buckland and Tornwood Church

A hand drawn, illustrated map of the world depicted across a two-page spread of a book. It is the world map of "Henricus Martellus Germanus" (Heinrich Hammer the German), Florence 1489 and the first map with the Dragon Tail, a phantom peninsula east…

Ancient tinners oak pick. Found in field nr St.Just-in-Penwith

Ancient tinners wooden shovel.

Ancient tinners wooden shovel.

Ancient tinners wooden shovel. Found near the 'Jamaica Inn', Bodmin Moor

Ancient wall.

A hand drawn, illustrated map by Guido of Pisa. Slide labels its date 1119 AD

Road Locomotive Earl Beatty showing crane attachment lifting Scenic Ride Cars into position at Penzance Corpus Christi Fair 1923

Anderton & Rowland engine and fair organ in Mawla.

An Anderton & Rowland 'Scenic' ride (left) and an 'Alpine Glide' (centre) dominate this photo of Falmouth Moor fair in the 1920s. Note the central chimney pipes from the roundabouts which took the smoke and exhaust from the steam-propelled…

An Anderton & Rowland Gladiator Engine in Mowla (Redruth).

Anderton & Rowland's traction engine 'Earl Berry', Jungle Speedway.

Anderton & Rowlands Burrell Dragon traction engine