Archaeology Notes

Event ID 815919

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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About 50m SW of Buness House (HP60NW 12) is a memorial erected by Thomas Edmonston on the 21st October 1819. The inscription reads:

'TO THIS STONE

were attached the CLOCK

and PENDULUM employed by the

celebrated French Philosopher

BIOT

and on the one on which it rests

stood his repeating circle.

The distinguished English

Philosopher

KATER

Placed his

repeating circle

on this stone also

The former was sent by the

institute of France in the summer

of 1817, and the latter by the royal

society of London in the summer

of 1818 to determine by their

experiments & observations

the Figure of the Earth.

These memorials remain as pleasing

and lasting rememberances of the

splendid talents great worth and

aimiable manners of these eminent

men by

Their friend

THOMAS EDMONSTON

21 October 1818

Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2001.