The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. —Lessudduii Fig. 1548.—Lessudden House. the familiar rebus weThe other is dated 1739. A dial almost similar to the laststands on the garden wall at Drylaw,near Edinburgh. Pollok Castle, Renfreivshire (see Yol. 220, Fig. 793).—This is a triangularsundial, fixed on the cope of a stair balus-trade, which probably dates from about1694. Another similarly - shaped dial(see Vol. IV. p. 223, Fig. 797) occupies aposition on the top of the garden wall. Cockburnsjmth, Berivicksliir
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . Fig. —Lessudduii Fig. 1548.—Lessudden House. the familiar rebus weThe other is dated 1739. A dial almost similar to the laststands on the garden wall at Drylaw,near Edinburgh. Pollok Castle, Renfreivshire (see Yol. 220, Fig. 793).—This is a triangularsundial, fixed on the cope of a stair balus-trade, which probably dates from about1694. Another similarly - shaped dial(see Vol. IV. p. 223, Fig. 797) occupies aposition on the top of the garden wall. Cockburnsjmth, Berivicksliire ().—A dial placed over the lintel ofa doorway leading to a garden. Fountainhall, Midlothian.—This sin-gular juxtaposition of a dial and jougs (Fig. 1550) is to be found on a pigeon-house at Fountainhall. The old mansion-house (see Vol. II. p. 550) was theresidence of Lord Fountainhall (Sir John Lauder), and the tradi-tion that he held occasional public courts ofjustice here is not lessened by the presence ofthe jougs on one of his pigeon - houses. Onlyone gnomon of the dial remains entire; the stonefaces ha
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