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Sundial, built between 1671 and 1680, located in the designed landscape (NO34NE0088) of Glamis Castle (NO34NE0001). A monumental 21ft high, 4-stage, Baroque facetted sundial. The first stage has a 2-tier octagonal base giving way to a reduced plinth with ropework moulding. The second stage has four rampant lions each holding a dial in their fore-paws, the south dial is elliptic, the north dial round, the west dial rectangular, the east dial square, with flanking barley twist columns. A corniced canopy, supported by the top of the second stage and reducing to the neck of the third stage with a multi-faceted globe. The fourth stage has carved scrolls surmounted by the Earl's coronet. The sundial was erected by the 3rd Earl at three degrees west of the Greenwich Meridian.
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NO34NE0106 - GLAMIS CASTLE