Barnera [i.e. Bernera] [1719] [copy] /
Bastide, John Henri,active 1718-1759.
Gould, Francis,active 1760-1801.
cartographic

1763.
This is a copy of John Henri Bastide's 1719 plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.03/05a. It was copied by Francis Gould, in January 1763, in the Tower of London Drawing Room, and shows a plan of the Bernera barracks in process of being built at Glen Elg, with sections and elevations of the three storey high barracks. Notations in the "Explanation" refer to the financial and administrative problems encountered during the original building of the barracks between 1718 and 1723.
At top of sheet: title written in ink.
In top right hand corner: library shelfmark written in ink.
At right hand side of sheet: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
In bottom right hand corner: written in ink in box, "Explanation", with list of code letters, and names of features on plan to which they refer, and "B: 5: F: 5".
At bottom of sheet: scale statement "Scale 10 Feet to an Inch ", with 152.4 mm. scale bar, graded [0]-5-[0]-10-50.
In bottom left hand corner: "Fras. Gould Delint. ye 12 Jany. 1763", and "5", written in ink.
Has watermarks and is torn along the centre fold.
Tabraham Chris. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800,
Porter, Whitworth. History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1889,
Marshall, Douglas W., "Military Maps of the Eighteenth Century and the Tower of London Drawing Room", Imago Mundi,
Shows Glen Elg, Scotland.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military