Field Visit
Date September 1987
Event ID 1082941
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082941
SUNDIAL. A late 17th-century obelisk sundial of sandstone stands in a field 130m SE of the house, and N of the supposed site of the former Campbell of Auchenbreck mansion (No. 136). It stands on a four-stepped circular pedestal 0.9m high, probably of late 19th-century date. The shaft, which has been broken across and repaired, is 1.11m high, and the overall visible height is 2.69m. The shaft is divided on each face into five panels with the usual sunken hemispheres, hearts, a shield and other geometrical devices, those on the S face incorporating metal gnomons. On the N face, above a saltire, there are the initials S / DC and L / HL, for Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchenbreck and his wife Lady Henrietta Lindsay, who were married in 1679, and on the lowest panel there is the date 1695 (en.2). As in the sundial at Lochgoilhead (No. 285), the faceted globe has sunken triangles and hemispheres on the oblique facets, and gnomons on the cardinal faces, while the obelisk is divided into ten incised panels of diminishing height, each incorporating a gnomon.
RCAHMS 1992, visited September 1987
