Plan of the Castle of Blackness / [Theodore Dury]
Dury, Theodore,active 1670-1742.
cartographic

[1741?]
According to the "Board of Ordnance Register of Plans 1700-1800, this plan of Blackness Castle was from Theodore Dury, and the extensive manuscript text on it is in his hand. Unfortunately, the Register does not give a date for it, but was estimated at 1690 by the 1934 War Office records. There is a plan at shelfmark MS.1647.Z.02/75b, dated as 1741 at the title, but which is an unaltered copy of this one.
At left hand side of sheet: written in ink, title, and long list of code letters, with detailed description of the features on plan to which they refer.
In top left hand corner: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
In bottom left hand corner: written in ink "16".
In bottom right hand corner:  library shelfmark written in pencil, "B4 F32" written in ink, and scale statement "a scale of two hundred feet ", with 101.6 mm. scale bar, graded [0]-5-10-15-20-25-200.
Has watermarks.
Tabraham Chris. Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites, 1995,
Board of Ordnance. Register of Plans 1700-1800,
Shows Blackness Castle, West Lothian.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Blackness Castle (Scotland)
Maps, Military