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COLLECTION NAME:
Charting The Nation
Record
Work Record ID:
0043174
Shelfmark:
MS.1647.Z.02/72
Holding Institution:
National Library of Scotland
Title:
A Plan of the castle of Dunbarton [ie. Dumbarton] : and the repairs requisite to be done there 1709
Creator:
O'Brien, John (active 1709)
Creator Role:
Surveyor
Date:
1709
Description:
This sheet is divided into three panels. The smaller top and bottom panels contain the title, year and engineer's name, and the 'Refference' and scale bar. The middle panel, which constitutes the main body of the sheet, contains a plan of Dumbarton Castle in 1709, and the proposed improvements, with details of the rock, the Firth of Clyde and the River Leven. There is a faint draft image in the upper left hand side of the castle plan, which may indicate older works. The upper right hand third of the sheet has numbered grid lines drawn in pencil behind the main drawing. The proposed new works shown are a house for the Governor and Deputy Governor, a wall along the waterside, 'taking In a Parrade which is Mightily wanting in the Castle', a vault for the powder magazine, an additional storehouse, 'a Passage Cutt through the Rock, to mount the Same with more Ease & under cover', and a gate 'under Cover of the Rock', with 'Barriers in front of the Gate.'
Work Type:
Manuscript map/plan
Measurement:
39.4 x 54.4cm (1' 3 1/2" x 1' 9 7/16")
Material:
Paper
Technique:
Hand coloured
Subject Place:
Dumbarton Castle
Subject Place:
Scotland
Subject Category:
Board of Ordnance
Subject Category:
Maps, Military
Reference:
Tabraham, Chris, Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995, pp.18, 25, 30-31.
Reference:
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800, 3rd. Division, North Britain, [1800], f.14 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281).
Rights Statement:
© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the National Library of Scotland
Repro File Type:
Cropped Tiff
Repro File Size (bytes):
62141268
Repro Title:
A Plan of the castle of Dunbarton [ie. Dumbarton] : and the repairs requisite to be done there 1709 [1 of 1]
Repro Display Measurement (pixels):
7072 x 7072
Repro ID Number:
0043174c.tif
Repro Old ID Number:
00002934
Repro Capture Date:
11/05/2001 12:22:00

A Plan of the castle of Dunbarton [ie. Dumbarton] : and the repairs requisite to be done t...

A Plan of the castle of Dunbarton [ie. Dumbarton] : and the repairs requisite to be done there 1709 [1 of 1]