Maps

Pont 4 (back) : Loch Assynt, northwest Highlands

  • Note the drawing of Ardvreck Castle with an adjacent mill. This castle had only recently been built when visited by Pont.
  • Also on this side of the manuscript is an unrelated incomplete note in Pont's hand which shows his interest in recording family history:
  • Item Torkill
    his so[n] Tormoyd
    his so[n] Anguss
    his so[n] Neel Anguss mar[ried] a d:[aughter] of S[ir] Donald Makleod in Lewes
    Donald Mar:[ried] More Macky d:[aughter] to Maky of Stranaver
    Neell
Note: For a detailed analysis of this sheet see Stone (1989).

  • No other Pont map includes this area.
  • Several of Robert Gordon's manuscript maps include at least part of this area: 2, 3, 12A, 12B.
  • The printed maps by Blaeu of Extima Scotiae and Aebudae Insulae are relevant.

Maps by Blaeu and Gordon can be accessed via
the National Library of Scotland's Digital Library.


Text derived in part from Jeffrey C. Stone's The Pont Manuscript Maps of Scotland, published by Map Collector Publications Ltd in 1989.