Dunglass, Sundial, Oldhamstocks
Description: Dunglass, Sundial
Category: B
Date Listed: 5 February 1971
Historic Scotland Building ID: 14730
OS Grid Coordinates: 376716, 671911
Latitude/Longitude: 55.9397, -2.3743
Location: Oldhamstocks, East Lothian TD13 5XF
Locality: Oldhamstocks
County: East Lothian
Country: Scotland
Postcode: TD13 5XF
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Listing Text
Possibly 17th century. Sited to E of Collegiate Church on a
mound. Weathered ashlar. Square, moulded base supporting a
shaft comprised of 4 piers, each with moulded base and neck;
deeply over-hanging cornice/table above shaft, with cubical
dial at centre. Waisted, moulded block set on dial, added
later from series of stones formerly strewn about the area.
References:
Inventory 127. MacGibbon and Ross, CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC
vol.V, p.478.
Notes:
The proportions of the dial are unusual; the base, shaft and
table reach a height of 6', on a base under 2' wide,
supporting a table 5' wide. The possibility that the
structure served some other purpose originally, cannot be
ignored.
Source: Historic Scotland
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