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Edinburgh, Saughton Hall
Sundial (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Edinburgh, Saughton Hall
Classification Sundial (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 306846
Site Number NT27SW 9.01
NGR NT 2207 7186
NGR Description NT c. 2207 7186
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/306846
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SW 9.01 c. NT2207 7186
A lectern sundial at Saughtonhall House was photographed and described by A Niven Robertson in 'Old Sundials in and around Edinburgh', page 108 (Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, December 1949): 'In the lovely rose garden of Saughtonhall House stands a splendid lectern dial, supported on a graceful stone baluster, set on two steps. It has 20 dial faces which are cup-shaped, bowl-shaped and trowel-shaped. A grotesque human face acts as a gnomon on the east side and on the west side. The face in each case curves round one semicircle of a bowl cavity. The summit has a star desk with the usual semi-cylinder concave dial face. The names of the zodiac are carved on it'. This sundial was photographed and described by Dr Andrew Somerville in 1986, when it was in store in the Lothian Region Nursery at Inch House, but it was recorded as 'missing' in 1990 by Mrs Somerville (MS 5741/4/19). (A Cassells, 13 August 2009).
See also the listed baluster sundial in Saughton Park rose garden, NT27SW 3780.
