. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. Touching the ancient history of Dalpersie, nothing is known butthe little which is borne upon its own walls by way of decoration; and itthis information is to be taken as its origin, it is a tale soon told. Upon 124 ^^^^ BARONIAL AND the lower corbel-stone of the circular staircase, the first letter of Gordon issculptured, and upon a window-sill adjoining, we have a panel, imitativeof a plate screwed on to the wall, bearing the date 1561. The head ofthis window is ornamented by the lairds crest, a boars head, so beautif
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. Touching the ancient history of Dalpersie, nothing is known butthe little which is borne upon its own walls by way of decoration; and itthis information is to be taken as its origin, it is a tale soon told. Upon 124 ^^^^ BARONIAL AND the lower corbel-stone of the circular staircase, the first letter of Gordon issculptured, and upon a window-sill adjoining, we have a panel, imitativeof a plate screwed on to the wall, bearing the date 1561. The head ofthis window is ornamented by the lairds crest, a boars head, so beautifullycut as to make one wish that the building had more ornament by the samehand. The Gordon who was its owner in 1745 is said to have been the lastperson executed for participating in the Jacobite rising, and a recess in theupper part of the house, against the roof, is shown as the spot where hewas captured.* New Statist. Account, -?Mercleenshiic. p. A NT m LI TIES OK SCOTLAND lis Dirleton Castle
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