Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709729

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT06NE 2.01 0695 6697.

In the garden of Calder House is a 17th century sundial of lectern type containing 41 dials. The shaft and steps are modern. The dial-stone is 27" high by 13 1/4" wide. Also, N of the house, is a Renaissance gateway with the date 1670 carved on one of the pillars.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1921; H B M'Call 1894

The gateway as illustrated originally stood at NT 0739 6761, but was taken down in 1930 (visited by OS (JC) 5 May 1953) and re-erected at NT 0695 6697 (information from Desk Sgt, Mid Calder Police Station).

The sundial, as illustrated, stands at NT 0695 6697.

Visited by OS (DWR) 28 March 1974

Both the gateway and sundial have been removed to make way for housing development. Present whereabouts not known.

Information from OS 27 June 1989.

The sundial was presented to the National Trust for Scotland by the County Council in 1971. It is now in the walled garden at Culzean Castle, having been restored in 1984 by George Higgs. See MS 5741/3/12.

Anne Cassells, 11 June 2009.