The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . Touching the ancient history of Dalpersie, nothing is known hut the little which is borne uponits own walls by way of decoration ; and if this information is to be taken as its origin, it is a talesoon told. Upon the lower corbel-stone of the circular staircase, the first letter of Gordon is sculp-tured, and upon a window-sill adjoining, we have a panel, imitative of a plate screwed to thewall, bearing the date 1561. The head of this window is ornamented by the lairds crest, a boarshead, so beautifully cut as to make one wish that the b
The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . Touching the ancient history of Dalpersie, nothing is known hut the little which is borne uponits own walls by way of decoration ; and if this information is to be taken as its origin, it is a talesoon told. Upon the lower corbel-stone of the circular staircase, the first letter of Gordon is sculp-tured, and upon a window-sill adjoining, we have a panel, imitative of a plate screwed to thewall, bearing the date 1561. The head of this window is ornamented by the lairds crest, a boarshead, so beautifully cut as to make one wish that the building had more ornament by tne same Gordon who was its owner in 1745 is said to have been the last person executed for par-ticipating in the Jacobite rsing, and a h^cess in the upper part of the house, against the roof, isshown as the spot where he was captured.* K. W. B. • New Statist. Account, Aberdeeiisllire, p. 446,.
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