A Plan of a new fort design'd for Inverness : done exactly upon the old lines of Olivers Fort; with the additional outworks of cover'd-way, lunettes and glassis; all which are more fully explain'd in the particular plans & sections /
Marcell, Lewis,active 1746.
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1746.
This is Lewis Marcell's 1746 plan for a fort to replace the Fort George which had been on the Inverness Castle site, and was destroyed by the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in 1746, just before Culloden (see Charles Tarrant's details of the destruction at shelfmarks MS.1646.Z.02/36a and MS.1646.Z.02/37a). This plan is accompanied by 10 sheets of sections at shelfmarks MS.1647.Z.02/79b,  MS.1647.Z.02/79c, MS.1647.Z.02/80a, MS.1647.Z.02/80b, MS.1647.Z.02/81a, MS.1647.Z.02/81b, MS.1647.Z.02/81c, MS.1647.Z.02/81d, MS.1647.Z.02/81e and MS.1647.Z.02/83b.
Two sets of plans for a new Fort George at Inverness were drawn up, using the site of the old Cromwellian fort, known as Oliver's Fort (see Louis Petit's map at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/78a), this set by Marcell, and a set by William Skinner. In the event, the Oliver's Fort site was rejected, after a claim of compensation from the town of Inverness for the loss of use of their harbour, and the new Fort George was built at Ardersier Point, to another set of designs by William Skinner (see plans and sections from shelfmarks MS.1646.Z.02/39 to MS.1646.Z.02/60).
The sheet is divided into three panels, of which the top panel contains an ornate cartouche holding the title, and the middle panel contains the plan itself.  The bottom panel contains an ornate cartouche holding the "Explanation", with list of code numbers, and names of features on plan to which they refer, the number "28" written in ink in the left bottom corner, and "B.4.F.41" in the right bottom corner.
In bottom right hand margin: library shelfmark written in ink.
In bottom margin: written in ink  "Rec'd with Major Lewis Marcell's Report & Estimate dated 1746".
Towards lower part of plan: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red, and above, scale statement "Scale of a hundred feet to an Inch ", with diagonal scale graded 10-[100]-0-600.
Has watermarks.
Tabraham Chris. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800,
Shows the area round Oliver's Fort near Inverness, Invernesshire.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
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