The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fio. 1662. -Pinkie the face of the dial is 23|inches in breadth. SUNDIALS — 483 SUNDIALS West Pilton Farm, Granton, near Edin-burgh.—This dial (Fig. 1663) stands in thefarm-house garden. It surmounts a shortmodern Doric column. The dial has only oneface, and, judging from the rounded appearanceof the back of the stone, it appears to havebeen cut from a split boulder. Forgue, Elgin.—This dial (Fig. 1664) wasat one time built into a wall, and appears tohave been a corner dial. It has been mountedo
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fio. 1662. -Pinkie the face of the dial is 23|inches in breadth. SUNDIALS — 483 SUNDIALS West Pilton Farm, Granton, near Edin-burgh.—This dial (Fig. 1663) stands in thefarm-house garden. It surmounts a shortmodern Doric column. The dial has only oneface, and, judging from the rounded appearanceof the back of the stone, it appears to havebeen cut from a split boulder. Forgue, Elgin.—This dial (Fig. 1664) wasat one time built into a wall, and appears tohave been a corner dial. It has been mountedon a pedestal as shown, and has been fixedon the buttress of St. Margarets Church,Forgue. The Rev. William Temple, to whomit belongs, traces its possession back throughfive generations of paternal ancestors andto his brother (whose obituaries have allbeen carved on the pedestal). The dial. Fio. 1663.—West Pilton Farm. stone is 19 inches hieh
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