The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty, Lloyd, Eleanor, Evans, Lewis · London, G. Bell · leaf 181
he standard Scottish ell, 3 feet i^ incheslong. This pillar is noticed by the Queen in her Journal of our life inthe Highlands. The dials on the cross at Doune are small and somewhat defaced,and are surmounted by a lion. At Galashiels the dial has been re-newed, but the vane at the top has the date… … The market cross of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, is surmounted by adial having four faces, and is crowned by a stone ball. The shaft, SCOTTISH DIALS 149 made of a single stone 9 feet high, is older than the dials and thecornice, which all belong to the seventeenth century. The cross at Peebles, which…
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