Field Visit
Date 10 August 1927
Event ID 1098887
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Gates and Sundial, Scotscraig.
About 200 yards west of Scotscraig Mains is a pair of Renaissance gate-piers, with globular finials and the date 1620. Close at hand are the old walled gardens, the entrance to which is a Renaissance archway bearing a cartouche, enclosed by the initials A.I.S. for James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, and the date 1667. It bears: A fess between two cross crosslets fitchy in chief and a mullet in base, the Archbishop's arms. Within the gardens is a cross-shaped dial on a chamfered base, the whole a bout 6 feet high. It is known as "Archbishop Sharp's sundial," but the stone is surprisingly fresh, and the dial may therefore be of considerably later date.
RCAHMS 1033, visited 10 August 1927.
