The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 153 -Suinmerhiill, Edinburgh. Clackmannan.—A very quaint round dial (Fig. 1536) is placed on oneof the crow-steps of an old house in Clackmannan. It is neatly fitted toits position with a square base and pi-operly prepared side. A dial (Fig. 1537) resembling the one at Clackmannan may be seenon one of the old houses at Summerhall, Edinburgh. It probably datesfrom about the end of the seventeenth century. Grange])ans, Boness, Linlithgoivshire (see Vol. iv. p. 82).—On this lineold mansiondiou
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. 153 -Suinmerhiill, Edinburgh. Clackmannan.—A very quaint round dial (Fig. 1536) is placed on oneof the crow-steps of an old house in Clackmannan. It is neatly fitted toits position with a square base and pi-operly prepared side. A dial (Fig. 1537) resembling the one at Clackmannan may be seenon one of the old houses at Summerhall, Edinburgh. It probably datesfrom about the end of the seventeenth century. Grange])ans, Boness, Linlithgoivshire (see Vol. iv. p. 82).—On this lineold mansiondiouse there are two dials occupying a similar position to theone last mentioned. The date on the house is 1564, but the dials arelater. The place they occupy has not been specially prepared for them,and they do not properly fit their position. SUNDIALS 390 — SUNDIALS East Calder, Midlothian.—This dial (Fig. 1538), on the gable of ahouse in the village, is peculiar in having a
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