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...ate practical charts of sailors, and vice versa, but the age of discovery, from the closing decade of the fifteenth century, stimulated the integration of ...spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself.<ref>See the biography of Mercat ...

* Activity from the [[Mesolithic]] period onwards, attested by archaeological finds across * Wide-ranging Iron Age and Roman remains, suggesting continued occupation from pre-conquest period into the Roman era.<ref name=OARA2011/> ...