Bernera  [1719] /
Jelfe, Andrews,active 1704-1759.
cartographic

[1719]
This sheet shows a plan of the barracks in process of being built at Bernera, Glen Elg. There is another contemporary plan of the Bernera barracks by Andrews Jelfe at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/05c. The original plans for the four Highland barrack forts, Bernera, Kiliwhimen, Inversnaid and Ruthven, were drawn up in 1717 by James Smith, who was the royal chief surveyor. There are two very similar contemporary plans by John Henri Bastide, with whom Jelfe was working, at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.03/05a and MS.1647.Z.03/05b. The overall view of Glen Elg, drawn by Bastide, at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/07a, was partly based on a survey by Jelfe.
At top of sheet: written in pencil "No 3 pa 42 - 3rd divn", and very faintly "No 16", with title written in ink below.
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in ink, and in pencil "B_3_3".
In bottom right hand corner: "B.5.F.3.", written in ink, and above, library shelfmark written in pencil.
At bottom of sheet: "Mr. Jelfe 1719" written in pencil.
At left hand side of sheet: written in ink "Explanation", with list of code letters, and features on plan to which they refer, and below, "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
In bottom left hand corner: "3" written in ink.
Has watermarks and pin holes, and there is a scale bar graded [0]-5-10-60 Feet drawn on a vertical axis, at the right hand side.
Tabraham Chris. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
National Library of Scotland. War Office Inventory,
Shows Bernera, Glen Elg, Scotland.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Smith, James, active 1649-1720.
Maps, Military