A Design for powder magazine proposed to be built at at Dumbarton : to contain 150 barrels of powder; 1748  [copy] /
Skinner, William,1700-1780.
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[1748?]
The original of this plan, at shelfmark  MS.1647.Z.02/74a, is a design for a powder magazine at Dumbarton Castle, by William Skinner, in 1748, part of the upgrading of all the fortifications in Scotland which started after the battle of Culloden.
At top of sheet: hand lettered in ink, title and year.
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in ink.
In bottom right hand corner: written in ink "B4: F: 33", with "33" scored out and "43" written alongside.
At right hand side of sheet: written faintly in pencil "No 4 pa 31 - 3rd divn".
In bottom left hand corner: written in ink "H".
At left hand side of sheet: written faintly in pencil "1748 No. 74".
At bottom of sheet: scale statement "A Scale of feet 5 to an Inch ", with 101.6 mm. scale bar, graded [0]-5-[0]-10-30.
In middle of sheet: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
Tabraham Chris. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
National Library of Scotland. War Office Inventory,
Shows Dumbarton Castle, Dunbartonshire.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Dumbarton Castle (Dumbarton, Scotland)
Maps, Military