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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 4888662" data-attributes="member: 7533">I'm afraid you won't find many, if any at all...  Elevation largely hasn't changed in the thousands of years mankind has been around, so it's easy for modern cartographers to include it in their historical maps.  Swamps and plains and forests can change quickly and often.Plus, terrain, aside from rivers, coasts and major mountain ranges -- which also don't change much -- wasn't greatly important to medieval cartographers.  They just wanted to know where the cities were.  There aren't really any accurate records of where those sorts of features were, so the best anyone can do now is guess.That said, the maps of Abraham Ortelius (though he worked during the Renaissance) might have something.  I'd check them.</blockquote>