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Aberdour House, Sundial

Sundial (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Aberdour House, Sundial

Classification Sundial (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Cuttlehill House, Sundial

Canmore ID 104829

Site Number NT18NE 7.01

NGR NT 19167 85371

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Aberdour (Dunfermline)
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Dunfermline
  • Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NT18NE 7.01 19167 85371

On the lawn to the E of the house is a late 16th century pedestal sundial.

RCAHMS 1933

The sundial is as described.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 6 March 1974

A note dated 1991 added to MS 5741/9/10 states that the sundial was moved to Aberdour Castle.

(A Cassells, 25 February 2010).

Activities

Field Visit (19 July 1928)

SUNDIAL. On the lawn to the east of the house is a late 16th-century pedestal dial, which resembles another at Pitfirrane (NT08NE 21). The pedestal rests on four stone globes and has on one side a cartouche, surmounted by a cherub's head and charged with a heart, for Douglas, Earl of Morton, and on another side a cartouche within the Garter, ensigned with a coronet, and bearing a cross surmounted by a cushion at fess. The two other sides bear respectively terminal figures and an empty cartouche. The total height of the dial is 4 feet 2 ½ inches, and the top is 2 feet square.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 19 July 1928

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