I've download dozens of maps and will be doing my darndest to get them in front of the teachers and pupils of Kernow at every possible jncture!
Now, a map I would love to see is a 'fish-eye' lens view with Kernow slap bang in the middle.
You know how in the Mappa Mundi things get crucnched up towards the rim? Well, what would it all look like measured out in a logarithmic scale from the middle of kernow.
We are so bombarded with images of Britain floating alone detached. But, if we view the sea as the great Highway then Kernow is the most central and well-connected part of Britain (and certainly was in the past)
Does anyone have the techno-know how to produce such a map?
and while you are at it two other web-sites to visit:
www.sense-of-place.org.uk to give you an idea of what we are trying to achieve in schools
and (if you can face it)
www.cornwallculture.co.uk; sign in, search for the word 'Kernow' and you'll get the images that I have contributed to try and counter their banal, colonial, yuppie, arty-farty images. Then you can have your say too; Please use plenty of Kernewek!
tell you what is really missing...
where are the maps showing the creation of Brittany?
surely the name Kerne (Cornuaille) was imported from Kernow -estimates vary from 4th- 6th century but this is important stuff for the earliest recorded version of Kernow (currently the Ravenna Cosmography Durocornovium C6th)
What stories to the Bretons tell about the emigration from Britain? How do they explain names like Bro Gerne or Concarneau? Where are their historical maps showing their roots?
The dating and provenance of the Breton names such as Cornuaille could have important implications for the antiquity of 'Kernow/Cornubia' here.
cheers
Pednithan
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These are quite simply the maps which I have, so far, managed to win on ebay; nothing has been deliberately omitted, it's simply a case of limited funds and limited availability. Stick a map showing Cornwall as an independent country on ebay, and, if I win it, it'll end up on the website. Alternatively, send me a large scale scan of one, or more, of similar quality to those featured, and with the written permission of the owner of the map(s) to publish them, and I would be more than happy to feature them. The maps are on there due to the place-names they show, so I have no problems with including any maps of Cornwall whatsoever, so long as they show the place names.
You can find all the maps you want on this thread.
A website that gives half the truth, even if it is well done as in this case, only reinforces the half truths and the establishment lies about Cornwall, therefore does it deserve to exist, what purpose does it fulfil, how does it help anybody to really understand Cornwall?
We could make a fantastic site on the history of the "County" of Cornwall but it would be a long way from the reality, and so what use is it to anybody except those who want to promote the idea that Cornwall is and always has been just another English county.
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