The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . * We have to thank the Rev. Mr. Temple, Forgue, for information regardingthis dial, and Mr. MCurrach, stonecutter, Huntly, for a photograph. SUNDIALS 485 SUNDIALS. Fig. 16(56.—Ladylands House. SUNDIALS 486 — SUNDIALS 4. Horizontal Dials. The dials of this type care so numerous that a list of them wouldprobably include the name of every parish in Scotland, and the makingof them has continued down to ourown time. Horizontal dials may bedivided into two classes—(1) thosewhich in appearance are not
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . * We have to thank the Rev. Mr. Temple, Forgue, for information regardingthis dial, and Mr. MCurrach, stonecutter, Huntly, for a photograph. SUNDIALS 485 SUNDIALS. Fig. 16(56.—Ladylands House. SUNDIALS 486 — SUNDIALS 4. Horizontal Dials. The dials of this type care so numerous that a list of them wouldprobably include the name of every parish in Scotland, and the makingof them has continued down to ourown time. Horizontal dials may bedivided into two classes—(1) thosewhich in appearance are not unlikea card-table, consisting of a pedestalsuppoi-ting the flat dial-stone, whichis either square, octagonal, or round ;(2) the class in which the top of thepedestal itself becomes the dial. Ruchlaw, Stenton, Haddingto7ishire.—This is a typical example of theclass (Fig. 1667). It has a marbleface inserted in the stone table, whichbears the name Archibald sydserf,ROUGHLAW. His initials (see p. 425)occur on a stone at Ruchlaw, dated1663. Drummond Castle, Perthshire.—Fig. 1668 is from a rubbing, kindly obtained for us by Mr. HenryCurr, from one of two brass dials which stand on the garden terrace at
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