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IOR/X/3252
- Record Id:
- 040-002431705
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002238108
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000010764.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023421187.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/X/3252
- Title:
- ‘Outline Plan of the Works Connected with the Defence of the Main Pass at Aden’
- Scope & Content:
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Distinctive Features:
Relief shown by contours.
Outline map showing Main Pass and Military Road with proposed fortifications including batteries, guard room and bridge across Main Pass with gateway. Landmarks lettered for reference with a key provided at the lower left-hand corner of sheet which include a note: ‘Suspended by order of the Govr. Genl. T. The plan shews the proposed method of finishing these works. The details will be shewn in enlarged plans to accompany this’.
Inscriptions:
On recto, bottom left-hand corner:
‘Copied in the Chief Engrs. Office Bombay 26th September 1846’. And above: ‘146’.
On recto, bottom right-hand corner: ‘(Signed) J. Kilner Captain Ex.ve Eng.r Aden’.
On verso, bottom left-hand corner with bleed-through into the recto:
‘In Bombay Secret Letter No. 113 of 1846 Recd. via Southampton 10th Novr. 1846 Aden Fortifications’.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002238107
036-002238108
040-002431705 - Is part of:
- IOR/X : India Office reference collection of maps
IOR/X/1-4999 : Maps described in the 1878 published catalogue
IOR/X/3252 : ‘Outline Plan of the Works Connected with the Defence of the Main Pass at Aden’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-002238107[0001]/036-002238108[0169]/040-002431705
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 map
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000010764.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1846
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- 1846
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scale not given
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 44.983628,12.776121,45.04685,12.798483
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 44°59’1”-E 45°2’49”/N 12°47’55”-N 12°46’34”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials:
Pen and ink with wash on tracing paper with additions in pencil
Dimensions:
701 x 1032 mm
- Former External References:
- M.IX.22
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)