Dial in Highland Region

This dial was dug up by the geologist Hugh Miller in the garden of Urquhart Castle in the mid 19th century, and set up at his cottage in Cromarty. Later it was lost but in 1989 re-found and dug up in the garden of Albion House close by. It is now (1989) resting on a stone wall. It is a small facetted block with north-sloping top with equatorial star with bowl hollow in its centre; no hemi-cylinder; south side stepped; other surfaces flat or with various-shaped hollows including bowl (south); dials would have been on all available surfaces, but too worn to distinguish. Ref: A R Somerville, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 117, 1987, "The Ancient Sundials of Scotland".