Unst, Baltasound, Buness, Memorial Stone
Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Unst, Baltasound, Buness, Memorial Stone
Classification Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Buness House
Canmore ID 203253
Site Number HP60NW 76
NGR HP 6284 0895
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/203253
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Unst
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HP60NW 76 6284 0895
About 50m SW of Buness House (HP60NW 12) is a memorial erected by Thomas Edmonston on the 21st October 1819. The inscription reads:
'TO THIS STONE
were attached the CLOCK
and PENDULUM employed by the
celebrated French Philosopher
BIOT
and on the one on which it rests
stood his repeating circle.
The distinguished English
Philosopher
KATER
Placed his
repeating circle
on this stone also
The former was sent by the
institute of France in the summer
of 1817, and the latter by the royal
society of London in the summer
of 1818 to determine by their
experiments & observations
the Figure of the Earth.
These memorials remain as pleasing
and lasting rememberances of the
splendid talents great worth and
aimiable manners of these eminent
men by
Their friend
THOMAS EDMONSTON
21 October 1818
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001.