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Field Visit

Date 26 August 1999

Event ID 612440

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/612440

Large high-relief carving of a group of four reclining male figures with a central semi-draped female holding a torch in her left hand and a book in her right. In the extreme left corner of the pediment is a ploughshare and a large wheatsheaf; in the right corner is a cog and a crate.

See EDIN0124

Inscriptions : On frieze below pediment (incised letters):

MID-LOTHIAN COUNTY BUILDINGS. / MCMIV. (centre)

SIR JAMES H. GIBSON CRAIG. / OF RICCARTON. BART. / CONVENER. (left)

J.MACINTYRE HENRY. / ARCHITECT. (right)

Signatures : None Visible

Design period : 1899-1904

Year of unveiling : 1904

Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN0123)

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