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Subject Place
[Borrowstounness Harbour, Scotland]
Description
Notes that this assise 'did on the 2nd September instant repair to and meet at the sd toune of Borrowstonness ... [and] viewed, measured and considered of the situation of the said toun & the keyes & peers thereunto belonging'. It also gives bounds of the port and quay and pier measurements in detail.
Work Record ID
0042873
Subject Place
[Borrowstounness Harbour, Scotland]
Description
Notes that this assise 'did on the 2nd September instant repair to and meet at the sd toune of Borrowstonness ... [and] viewed, measured and considered of the situation of the said toun & the keyes & peers thereunto belonging'. It also gives bounds of the port and quay and pier measurements in detail.
Work Record ID
0042873
Subject Place
[Borrowstounness Harbour, Scotland]
Description
Notes that this assise 'did on the 2nd September instant repair to and meet at the sd toune of Borrowstonness ... [and] viewed, measured and considered of the situation of the said toun & the keyes & peers thereunto belonging'. It also gives bounds of the port and quay and pier measurements in detail.
Work Record ID
0042873
Subject Place
[Borrowstounness Harbour, Scotland]
Description
Notes that this assise 'did on the 2nd September instant repair to and meet at the sd toune of Borrowstonness ... [and] viewed, measured and considered of the situation of the said toun & the keyes & peers thereunto belonging'. It also gives bounds of the port and quay and pier measurements in detail.
Work Record ID
0042873
Subject Place
[Borrowstounness Harbour, Scotland]
Description
Notes that this assise 'did on the 2nd September instant repair to and meet at the sd toune of Borrowstonness ... [and] viewed, measured and considered of the situation of the said toun & the keyes & peers thereunto belonging'. It also gives bounds of the port and quay and pier measurements in detail.
Work Record ID
0042873
Subject Place
[Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland]
Subject Category
Canals
Work Record ID
0042893
Subject Place
[Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland]
Subject Category
Canals
Work Record ID
0042893
Subject Place
[Braco, Perthshire, Scotland, Strathallan, Strathearn]
Subject Category
Historical geography
Description
This detail from John Adair's map of Straithern (Strathearn) shows a plan of Ardoch (Airdoch) Roman camp, near Braco. The camp, which dates from the 1st-2nd centuries AD, was excavated in 1896-7 and can still be seen today. The drawing of a tombstone shows the memorial of Ammonius, a Roman soldier who served at Ardoch in the 1st century AD. The slab, found at Ardoch in the late 17th century, is one of few to have survived. It is now in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Details such as these reflect the growing interest in antiquities in the 17th and 18th centuries. Early drawings of sites are very important to archaeologists as many sites were destroyed by 18th century agricultural improvements.
Work Record ID
0042850
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0042896
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0042896
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
Notes 'account of money given out upon land mapps', including two maps of East Lothian, a map of Midlothian, a map of West Lothian, a map of Stirlingshire, a map of Clackmannanshire, two maps of Fife, a map of Strathern, Stormont and Carse of Gourie, and a general map of the west of Scotland, totalling £3,488 (Scots?).
Work Record ID
0042911
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
Notes 'account of money given out upon land mapps', including two maps of East Lothian, a map of Midlothian, a map of West Lothian, a map of Stirlingshire, a map of Clackmannanshire, two maps of Fife, a map of Strathern, Stormont and Carse of Gourie, and a general map of the west of Scotland, totalling £3,488 (Scots?).
Work Record ID
0042911
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
Includes the purchase of copper plates and paper; the purchase of 'a large Azimuth Compass for navigating the Isles' and a 'telescope 16 foot long'; the hire of boats 'to go & navigat the Drum Bank', the Isle of May '& along the Fife Coast' and the 'Smaller Islands and along the South Coast' [Farne Islands?]; 'A journey to the Great Bin above Kilsyth and to the Hils above Dunbritton'; 'a journey to Salin Drum & the Occhils'; fees to Moxon the engraver, and other expenses totalling £6942 Scots.
Work Record ID
0042904
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
Includes the purchase of copper plates and paper; the purchase of 'a large Azimuth Compass for navigating the Isles' and a 'telescope 16 foot long'; the hire of boats 'to go & navigat the Drum Bank', the Isle of May '& along the Fife Coast' and the 'Smaller Islands and along the South Coast' [Farne Islands?]; 'A journey to the Great Bin above Kilsyth and to the Hils above Dunbritton'; 'a journey to Salin Drum & the Occhils'; fees to Moxon the engraver, and other expenses totalling £6942 Scots.
Work Record ID
0042904
Subject Place
[Orkney, Scotland, Scotland - north coast, Shetland]
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0044131
Subject Place
[Orkney, Scotland]
Work Record ID
0042892
Subject Place
[Orkney, Scotland]
Work Record ID
0042892
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0042891
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0042891
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0042875
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0042875
Subject Place
[Broxmouth, East Lothian, Scotland]
Subject Category
Gardens
Description
Regarding John Adair, Roxburghe writes that she 'shall be very glad that you retrieve Mr Adair's Map of Broxmouth, for I might have had my whole estate survey'd for the money I gave him'. Adair surveyed the garden in 1712 [see NAS: Roxburghe Muniments, NRAS 1100/Bundles 797 (letter of 7 August 1711); 769 (letter of 16 July 1712); 767 (letters of 18 August 1712 and 18 November 1713); and 770 (letter of 28 December 1713)].
Work Record ID
0042897
Subject Place
[Broxmouth, East Lothian, Scotland]
Subject Category
Gardens
Description
Regarding John Adair, Roxburghe writes that she 'shall be very glad that you retrieve Mr Adair's Map of Broxmouth, for I might have had my whole estate survey'd for the money I gave him'. Adair surveyed the garden in 1712 [see NAS: Roxburghe Muniments, NRAS 1100/Bundles 797 (letter of 7 August 1711); 769 (letter of 16 July 1712); 767 (letters of 18 August 1712 and 18 November 1713); and 770 (letter of 28 December 1713)].
Work Record ID
0042897
Subject Place
[Broxmouth, East Lothian, Scotland]
Subject Category
Gardens
Description
Regarding John Adair, Roxburghe writes that she 'shall be very glad that you retrieve Mr Adair's Map of Broxmouth, for I might have had my whole estate survey'd for the money I gave him'. Adair surveyed the garden in 1712 [see NAS: Roxburghe Muniments, NRAS 1100/Bundles 797 (letter of 7 August 1711); 769 (letter of 16 July 1712); 767 (letters of 18 August 1712 and 18 November 1713); and 770 (letter of 28 December 1713)].
Work Record ID
0042897
Subject Place
[Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland]
Subject Category
Canals
Work Record ID
0042886
Subject Place
[Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland]
Subject Category
Canals
Work Record ID
0042886
Subject Place
[Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland]
Subject Category
Canals
Work Record ID
0042886
Subject Place
[Dalkeith, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland]
Description
A manuscript map of Midlothian which forms part of a series of county surveys drawn by the cartographer John Adair in the early 1680s, possibly working for Sir Robert Sibbald in his ill-fated project to publish a new Scottish atlas. It concentrates on identifying settlements between the Rivers Almond and Esk and is characterised by detailed plans of Edinburgh, Leith, Dalkeith and Musselburgh. Several roads are delineated by dotted lines and six bridges cross the Water of Leith. Some Pentland Hills are named and the site of Rullion Green battlefield (1666) is marked. Unusually for a manuscript, the map has a dedication, in this case to the Earl of Lothian, and the crests of another fourteen of the local gentry.
Work Record ID
0042693
Subject Place
[Dalkeith, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland]
Description
A manuscript map of Midlothian which forms part of a series of county surveys drawn by the cartographer John Adair in the early 1680s, possibly working for Sir Robert Sibbald in his ill-fated project to publish a new Scottish atlas. It concentrates on identifying settlements between the Rivers Almond and Esk and is characterised by detailed plans of Edinburgh, Leith, Dalkeith and Musselburgh. Several roads are delineated by dotted lines and six bridges cross the Water of Leith. Some Pentland Hills are named and the site of Rullion Green battlefield (1666) is marked. Unusually for a manuscript, the map has a dedication, in this case to the Earl of Lothian, and the crests of another fourteen of the local gentry.
Work Record ID
0042693
Subject Place
[Scotland, Scotland - central, Scotland - southwest]
Work Record ID
0044003
Subject Place
Scotland
Description
This warrant (dated at Kensington, 29 March 1698) was in consideration 'of the charges & paines he hes been at in accompanying John Adair, for taking of the Northwest Seas and Islands and prosecuting the Naturall Historie of the same; - and for his further encouragement therein'.
Work Record ID
0042870
Subject Place
Haddington,Scotland
Description
Recommends to the Magistrates and any oyers of the Counsell they please to consider upon what is to be given to Mr John Adair for drawing the mapp of the toun of Haddingtoun', noted in W. Forbs-Gray, A short history of Haddington, who notes that 'no trace of it [i.e. the plan] can be found', p.82.
Work Record ID
0042864
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
Surveyors
Work Record ID
0042868
Subject Place
[Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Don River, Scotland]
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0044133
Subject Place
[Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Dee River, Don River, Scotland]
Subject Category
[Cities and towns, Nautical charts]
Work Record ID
0044134
Subject Place
[Annan, Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland]
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0044130
Subject Place
Scotland
Work Record ID
0044135
Subject Place
[Harris, Island of, Scotland, Skye, Island of, Western Isles]
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0044123
Subject Place
[Harris, Island of, Lewis with Harris Island, Scotland]
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Work Record ID
0044126
Subject Place
Scotland
Subject Category
Nautical charts
Description
Notes Adair's progress 'in his worke of surveying the coasts of Scotland & taking the Sea Mapps thereof from Sutherland Point in England to Buccanness including the Rivers of Forth of Tay and the river [burgh] of Montrose and Aberdeen ...'.
Work Record ID
0042919
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