Identifier: sixthreportinven00scot (find matches)
Title: Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Scotland. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions
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Publisher: Edinburgh : H.M. Stationery Off.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y the resultof this reconstruction. Heraldic lJaneL—Over the arch of the modern gateway to theeast of the castle is a panel containing two shields bearing arms:Dexter, A saltire between two stars in chief and base and twocrescents in flanks; Sinister, A lion rampant crowned. Carved belowthe shields respectively are the initials A- H and E • M and the date1581. The contents of the panel have been re-cut. The arms andinitials are those of Andrew Haig, who owned Bemersyde at thedate given, and those of his third wife, Elizabeth Macdougall. Sun-dial.—On the lawn to the south of the castle is a sun-dial ofEenaissance design. The dial has a sloping stone gnomon and isoctagonal on plan. It is supported by a moulded baluster resting ona modernised pedestal and approached by three broad steps. The dialface measures 1 foot 8 \ inches between the parallel sides, and theheight from the top of the steps to the point of the gnomon is fully Ancient and Historical Monuments—County of Berwick.
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Fig. 144.—Dovecot, Mertoun House (No. 262). To face p. 151. inventory of monuments, etc., in county of berwick. 151 Parish of Mertoun. 7 feet. Carved in relief on the northern side of the dial face is ashield bearing the Haig arms with helmet and mantling, and on theeastern margin of the sloping gnomon bemersyde 1691 is also cutin relief. The section of the dial stone is such that sixteen surfacesare developed on the sides, each one bearing a small dial of conven-tional design. See Cast, and Bom. Arch., iii. p. 220, and v. p. 234 (illus.); TheHaigs of Bemersyde, p. 4 (illus.). O.S.M., Ber., xxx. SW. and SE. Visited 15th April 1912. 262. Mertoun House.—This mansion-house is situated on a plateauon the northern bank of the river Tweed, 2 miles east-north-east ofSt Boswells. It is a plain classic building three storeys in heightwith a modern addition at the southern end, and was erected in1702-3 from designs by Sir William Bruce. In the course of altera-tions carried out on this hous

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