A Draught of Dumbarton Castle anno 1708.
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1708.
This is a plan of Dumbarton Castle, with part of the  Firth of Clyde and the River Leven. It is dated 1708, but is unsigned, and although it is listed in the "Board of Ordnance Register of Plans 1700-1800", it is not attributed to anyone. Several features have been drafted in in pencil, including a compass rose in the bottom left hand part of the plan, "The way from the Town to the Castle", and a flagpole with a flag, on top of the north east hill. There is a finished copy at shelfmark  MS.1647.Z.02/71b, done by John Field, in 1812.
In top left hand corner: title and year, with list of code letters, and names of features on plan to which they refer, and library shelfmark written in pencil.
In bottom left hand corner: "2" written in ink.
In bottom right hand corner: rudimentary scale bar, graded [0]-5-100-300 Feet, and below "40 feet" written in pencil and "B.4.F.20" written in ink.
In top right hand corner: "135" written in ink.
On right hand side: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
Has watermarks.
Tabraham Chris. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800,
Shows Dumbarton Castle, Dunbartonshire, including part of the Firth of Clyde and the River Leven.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Dumbarton Castle (Dumbarton, Scotland)
Maps, Military