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Asknish House, Sundial
Sundial (17th Century)
Site Name Asknish House, Sundial
Classification Sundial (17th Century)
Canmore ID 40060
Site Number NR99SW 20.01
NGR NR 92937 91411
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40060
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmichael Glassary
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (September 1987)
SUNDIAL. A late 17th-century obelisk sundial of sandstone stands in a field 130m SE of the house, and N of the supposed site of the former Campbell of Auchenbreck mansion (No. 136). It stands on a four-stepped circular pedestal 0.9m high, probably of late 19th-century date. The shaft, which has been broken across and repaired, is 1.11m high, and the overall visible height is 2.69m. The shaft is divided on each face into five panels with the usual sunken hemispheres, hearts, a shield and other geometrical devices, those on the S face incorporating metal gnomons. On the N face, above a saltire, there are the initials S / DC and L / HL, for Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchenbreck and his wife Lady Henrietta Lindsay, who were married in 1679, and on the lowest panel there is the date 1695 (en.2). As in the sundial at Lochgoilhead (No. 285), the faceted globe has sunken triangles and hemispheres on the oblique facets, and gnomons on the cardinal faces, while the obelisk is divided into ten incised panels of diminishing height, each incorporating a gnomon.
RCAHMS 1992, visited September 1987
