The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fjg. 1697.—Miniiigaff. side. The dial is very primitive, and is a rough unhewn whinstone(Fig. B); the top is squared, and bears a horizontal dial about 9 inchesin diameter (Fig. A). * The drawing is copied from a sketch by Miss Johnstone. SUNDIALS 503 — SUNDIALS Neworth, Kelso, Roxhurylishire.—The drawing of the dial at Neworth(Fig. 1698) is made from a watercolour sketch by the designer of thedial, kindly lent to us by his great-grandson, Mr. Patrick Robertson,Fountainhall. Mr. Robertson inform
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fjg. 1697.—Miniiigaff. side. The dial is very primitive, and is a rough unhewn whinstone(Fig. B); the top is squared, and bears a horizontal dial about 9 inchesin diameter (Fig. A). * The drawing is copied from a sketch by Miss Johnstone. SUNDIALS 503 — SUNDIALS Neworth, Kelso, Roxhurylishire.—The drawing of the dial at Neworth(Fig. 1698) is made from a watercolour sketch by the designer of thedial, kindly lent to us by his great-grandson, Mr. Patrick Robertson,Fountainhall. Mr. Robertson informs us that his ancestor made the dialin 1760, when he was a very young man, and had the pedestal hewn bya local mason at Ednam, where it was first put up, and after being onceor twice removed, as the family changed their abode, it was finally broughtto ISTeworth by the son of the designer when he purchased that propertyin 185-1:. The dial-plate is of
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