[Sections of Fort Augustus, 1747] : No.1, No.2, No.3, No.4 and No.5 [copy] /
Skinner, William,1700-1780.
cartographic

[1747?]
This is a copy of the sheet of sections at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/70b, and accompany the plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/66b (original at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/66a, and another copy at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/66c.) They show William Skinner's repairs and additions to Fort Augustus, as a consequence of its partial destruction by the army of Charles Edward Stuart, just before Culloden, in 1746, and follow Skinner's initial plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/65a, (copies at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.02/65b and MS.1647.Z.02/65c).
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in pencil.
In bottom right hand corner: written in ink "Bo: 5: Fo: 60".
At bottom of sheet: scale statement "Scale of Feet for this profil 40 in an Inch", with no scale bar, and written above, in ink, "Line of Fire at Three Hundred and Twenty Yards Distance the hill of the Old Barracks".
At left hand side of Section No.3: scale statement "Scale 20 foot in an Inch", with 127 mm. scale bar graded [0]-5-10-100.
In bottom left hand corner: written in ink "No.22".
In middle of plan: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
Has watermarks.
National Library of Scotland. War Office Inventory,
Shows Fort Augustus, Invernesshire.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military