Edinburgh, Bell's Mill
Inscribed Stone (17th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Bell's Mill
Classification Inscribed Stone (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wester Place Of Dean
Canmore ID 52616
Site Number NT27SW 146
NGR NT 2377 7369
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52616
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SW 146 237 737
See also NT27SW 633.
A 17th-century armorial panel is built into the N face of Bell's Mill (NT27SW 633). It probably came from the Wester Place of Dean, a mansion built on the estate of Dean by Henry Nisbet. The stones above the panel are dated 1692 with the initials of S(ir) H(enry) N(isbet) and his first wife C(hristian) R(iddell).
J Geddie 1908; RCAHMS 1951.
Publication Account (1951)
On the N. face of Bell's Mill [NT27SW 633], an appurtenance of the Dean Estate that is situated immediately upstream from the Belford Bridge, is inserted a 17th-century armorial panel. This probably came from the Wester Place of Dean, a mansion built on the estate of Dean by Henry Nisbet. The shield, supported dexter by a savage holding a baton in his right hand and sinister by a greyhound, is surmounted by helm, mantling and wreath with a boar passant for crest and having, over all, a label flanked by the initials H N and bearing the almost illegible motto I BYDE IT. The shield is charged: On a chevron between three boar's heads erased, a canton charged with the saltire and lion rampant of the baronets of Nova Scotia. On the stones immediately above the panel, which are dated 1692 in two places, appear monograms of the initials of S(ir) H(enry) N(isbet)
and his first wife C(hristian) R(iddell).
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941