The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . dial. The height from the ground to top of basin is about 6 feet 2inches, and across the basin the measuiement is 5 feet 1 inch; the widthacross the pedestal is about 20^ inches. SUNDIALS — 479 — SUNDIALS Troquhain, New Galloway, KirhcudhrigUshire.—^^ are indebted toMr. William Barbour, the tenant of Troquhain farm, for informationregarding this dial, and for having procured the sketch (Fig. 1657). Thelower part or shaft is modern, of date 1855, and contains the initials of theRev. George Murray
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . dial. The height from the ground to top of basin is about 6 feet 2inches, and across the basin the measuiement is 5 feet 1 inch; the widthacross the pedestal is about 20^ inches. SUNDIALS — 479 — SUNDIALS Troquhain, New Galloway, KirhcudhrigUshire.—^^ are indebted toMr. William Barbour, the tenant of Troquhain farm, for informationregarding this dial, and for having procured the sketch (Fig. 1657). Thelower part or shaft is modern, of date 1855, and contains the initials of theRev. George Murray, minister of Balniaclellan, and of his wife, ElizabethHyslop Murray, with the inscription horas non numero nisi serenus. The dial itself is dated 1616, and it is thus theoldest dated dial we have met with in Scot-land. There is an almost similar dial lyingin front of Callendar House, , Midlothian. — There arethree dials at Oxenford Castle. Thefirst stands in the centre of the garden;it is a plain circular horizontal dial, witha marble dial-plate. The second stands.
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