Monument record MHG56885 - Stone sundial - Abertarff House, Inverness

Summary

An C18 stone sundial at Abertarff house in Inverness.

Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6653 4540 (4m by 4m)
Map sheet NH64NE
Operational Area INVERNESS NAIRN BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY
Civil Parish INVERNESS AND BONA
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

An inscribed stone sundial at Abertarff House in Inverness. The carvings appear to include the date 1729 and the name A[i]lex Fraser of Fairfield on the top of the stone, directly above the face of one of the sundials. There was a sundial on either side of the block of stone. The faces of the sundials have numbers along both sides and along the bottom. From the top left anticlockwise to the top right the numbers read: 6, 7, 8, 9 (in the bottom left hand corner), 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3 (in the bottom right hand corner) and 4, 5, 6.

Photographs were taken by Bill Anderson on the 02/01/2015.

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Record last edited

Jan 15 2015 1:28PM

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