The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1587.—Carberry. Fig. 1588.—Carberry (Fig. 1649). The capital is 17h inches high, and the faces of the octagonmeasure about 6f inches wide by 6| inches high. Pollok Castle, Henfreimhire. —Fig. 797, p. 223, Vol. iv., shows thecapital of an obelisk dial. SUNDIALS 422 SUNDIALS 2. Lectern-shaped Dials. The dials of this type are as unlike those of the obelisk class inappearance as any two things can be which are designed to serve thesame purpose. The characteristic elements of the lectern-shaped
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 1587.—Carberry. Fig. 1588.—Carberry (Fig. 1649). The capital is 17h inches high, and the faces of the octagonmeasure about 6f inches wide by 6| inches high. Pollok Castle, Henfreimhire. —Fig. 797, p. 223, Vol. iv., shows thecapital of an obelisk dial. SUNDIALS 422 SUNDIALS 2. Lectern-shaped Dials. The dials of this type are as unlike those of the obelisk class inappearance as any two things can be which are designed to serve thesame purpose. The characteristic elements of the lectern-shaped dialsare a shaft (on which there are no dials), and a stone supported uponit, cut in a peculiar manner, so as to contain several sundials, the wholebearing a very decided resemblance to a music-stand or lectern. The dial-stone is cut, angled, bevelled, and hollowed into a multipli-city of parts not easily described. In a general way the front and backpresent sloping surfaces, and the ends or sides are perpendicular. Onthe front slope there is left a square block 3 or 4 inches thick, notu
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