Ellon Castle, Walled Garden, Central Avenue, Sundial

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Alternative Names Monument
Site type SUNDIAL
Canmore ID 122235
Site Number NJ93SE 29.06
NGR NJ 96000 30669
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish ELLON
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District GORDON
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Recording Your Heritage Online

Sundial, c.1700-15, marked original centre of garden, standing on a podium of three moulded steps and supported on a sculptured square shaft, a fine facet-headed dial with hollows on all 24 faces, topped by a ball finial.

Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk


Archaeological Notes

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Books and References

MacGibbon and Ross, D and T (1887-92) The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, 5v Edinburgh
Page(s): vol v p.445 Held at RCAHMS F.5.21.MAC

Shepherd, I A G (2006) Aberdeenshire, Donside and Strathbogie: an illustrated architectural guide, in Charles McKean [Edinburgh]
Page(s): 193 Held at RCAHMS Quick

Shepherd, I [A G] (1994a) Gordon: an illustrated architectural guide, [Edinburgh]
Page(s): 193 Held at RCAHMS D.5.GOR

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