Architecture Notes

Event ID 832874

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/832874

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NMRS REFERENCE:

In a series of Military Maps and Drawings of the Board of Ordnance relating to the 18th Century (held by National Library of Scotland, Reference MSS. 1645-1652) there is, contained in Volume 1650 - Number Z.46/19, the following drawing:

"A Sketch of Part of River Clyde showing situation of a Battery on White Tarland Point"

It gives a plan of the Battery to a scale of 1 Scotch Chain to an Inch, and Plans, Sections and Elevations to a scale of 10 Feet to an Inch of Guard House. Dated R.E.Office, Edinburgh, 10 September, 1813, and docketted as "Drawn to accompany Major Smyth's Report to Lt. General Mann dated 11th September 1813". The drawing is coloured.

This probably refers to what was later known as Fort Matilda.

(Undated) information in NMRS.