The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 524
ed for a few years, he erected* This is probably the skilful mason referred to by Hugh Miller in My Schoolsand Schoolmaster. SUNDIALS 509 — SUNDIALS the above dial in his orchard. Removing to Shettlestone, he again builta house for himself, and embarked in the speculation of building a tene-ment… … Bredisholm. says, by the people of Old Monkland passing their doors on his way tothe churchyard—a modern Old Mortality. Whatever his occupationfor the time may have been, he appears always to have had a dial onhand. He died about 1870. When Fraser executed this dial, the art as it was understood in…
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