report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw
drape cartouche
The map has a cartouche of red drapes, with branches of leaves, held up by an eagle, bottom centre.
Bussleton RiverThe cartouche also holds:-
scale
A Scale of one MileThe 1 mile = 72.4mm assuming a statute mile is 1 to 22229 or assuming a sea mile of 6082.95 ft is 1 to 25608. The map scale is about:-
1 to 22000 or 1 to 26000
3 or 2.5 inches to 1 mile
compass rose
up is N
There is a compass rose in the sea W of the river mouth. It has arrow points for the cardinal and half cardinal points, coloured red, pink, grey, blue, with a yellow fleur de lys marking north. The map is orientated roughly up is north.
foreshore
The sea is plain and uncoloured.
The foreshore area is coloured a sandy brown. An area east from the river mouth has what could be a bank of shingle on the upper foreshore. There is an inlet, almost a lake, in the foreshore east side at the mouth.
The coast line is pretty flat. An area on the E side of the estuary, about 2 miles in, is drawn with low ?rocky cliffs. There is another low cliff about 3 miles up on the W side. The landward area is tinted pale green.
ferries
The Hamble river mouth is the subject of the map. A small creek on the west side, 2.5 miles in, is drawn through the foreshore and a little inland. This seems to be the small stream that runs down from the area named Lowford.
The ferry at Bursledon is labelled by letter:-
c - Bussleton Ferry
hillocks
The land area is modelled with low hills, shaded to the east, with a tree or two on each. The drawing of the spit on the E of the river mouth suggest a lower lying area, tinted a paler green (almost layer colouring!)
Woods are shown by groups of trees at settlements, and elsewhere. There are occasional trees about the land, tinted emerald green.
b - HambleAnother can be identified by being adjacent to:-
c - Bussleton FerryA hamlet on the E side of the river mouth is not labelled. On Milne's map, 1791, this is Hook.
d - Road to Southamptondrawn by a double line from a tiny hamlet NE of Bursledon, on the river bank, by the ferry, through Bursledon, and off to the west towards Netley. This road continues east as a single dotted line across the foreshore, crosses by the ferry, is drawn as a single dotted line along the opposite foreshore to a house opposite Burseldon, where it become a double dotted line off to the ESE towards Fareham, labelled:-
e - Road to Portsmouth
a - Salt Pansdrawn as a series of rectangular ponds, with a house. These salterns were still visible on Milne's map, 1791, on Hamble Common.
Collins 1693
Dummer 1698
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Dummer and Wiltshaw's chart of Bursledon has details not shown in the chart by Greenvile Collins.
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw