The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Fig. 5.—Sundial from Wrychtis-housis at Woodhouselee. 64 SCULPTURED STONES OF EDINBURGH hollowed into a multiplicity of parts not easily Wrychtis-housis sundial in the garden at Woodhouseleeis 6 feet 3 inches high, including base and cap. It has eightvertical dials, besides the usual ones common to the lectern-shaped type. It is mounted on a twisted column, the flutingsof which are ornamented with a row of rosettes at the base,and with alternate thistles and roses, and hearts and cupidsheads, towards the
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club-- Vol1-35 (1908-1985) ; (1991)- . Fig. 5.—Sundial from Wrychtis-housis at Woodhouselee. 64 SCULPTURED STONES OF EDINBURGH hollowed into a multiplicity of parts not easily Wrychtis-housis sundial in the garden at Woodhouseleeis 6 feet 3 inches high, including base and cap. It has eightvertical dials, besides the usual ones common to the lectern-shaped type. It is mounted on a twisted column, the flutingsof which are ornamented with a row of rosettes at the base,and with alternate thistles and roses, and hearts and cupidsheads, towards the centre and at the crown of the the ground is on a sunny southern slope of thePentlands, the shrubbery and walls by which, in its present. Fig. 6.—Heraldic Pediment from Wrychtis-housis at Woodhouselee. position, it is hemmed in, interfere sadly with the performanceof its appointed days work by this many-fingered monitorof the flight of time. The stone is a wanderer, having been purchased andbrought hither, on the demolition of the old house beside theBorough Muir, by Alexander Eraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouse-lee, of whose taste and skill in dialling there is an interestingproof in the elaborate dial-plate, etched with aqua-fortis bythe hands of the judge and scholar, that crowns anothersundial at Woodhouselee. Most of the other stones removed from Wrychtis-housis WRYCHTIS-HOUSIS 65 to Woodhouselee have been built into a rustic archway, nowheavily overgrown with ivy, near the mansion-house. Restingon the ground, and partly buried in the turf, is a dormer-pediment, noted by Cadmon, bearing the effigy, in a crudestyle of art, of a crowned Roman Emperor (Fig. 6). Theinscription below reads: Octavius Secundus Roman. Im-perat
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