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Airth Castle, Sundial
Sundial (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Airth Castle, Sundial
Classification Sundial (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 219904
Site Number NS98NW 11.01
NGR NS 90010 86802
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Falkirk
- Parish Airth
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS98NW 11.01 90010 86802
NS 900 868. A sundial stands on the lowest of the garden terraces below the S facade of Airth Castle. It comprises a head, 1'4" square by 1'9" high, and a modern base, the whole now 3'5" high. It has been dialled on all four faces, but the E and W faces also bear grooves suggesting that the head has been used at some time as a weight in a cheese-press. The S face is dated 1690, the N one bears the Elphinstone coat of arms. On top of the head, a square brass dial is lying loose.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1955.
NS 9000 8680. The sundial is as described.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J P) 17 January 1974.
Photographic Survey (1955)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1955.
