datestone

Production date
1566
 Description
Rectangular datestone with sunken ansate panel bearing the date 1566. Scroll design outside panel. Found in a bounday wall north of Torwood Castle.
Dollar Park black catalogue number F9.
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Object detail

Department
Object
Production date
1566
Signature & date
carving:front:"1566"
Associated place
Torwood Castle/Torwood/Dunipace area
Measurement type, part and reading
Dimensions:0 - Whole:L 38cm (L 1' 2 15/16")
Dimensions:0 - Whole:W 39cm (W 1' 3 3/8")
Documentation notes
"Torwood Castle. Datestone. Torwood Castle stands in field no 110 (25" OS). The north-west side of this field is bounded by a right of way & a dyke along the edge of Torwood. There were many stones in this dyke which had obviously come from the castle. The date stone was in the dyke roughly NW of the castle & about 200 yards from it.
My father sold the estate in 1913 & after the First World War I went back to look at the stone. Owing to timber operations the dykehead had been all knocked down & the stones covered with debris & c. However, I knew the place & the old gamekeeper scraped about & we rescued the stone, put it in a box & you now have it. Ian Bolton. 5/8/59"
[Letter on file]

"The owner of Torwood castle, Mr Dundas, from whom my grandfather JC Bolton bought Torwood Estate in 1872, or his predecessors were said to have taken the coat-of-arms from the doorway & built it into Carronhall over the door. This mansion was I believe demolished & blown up so I suppose the coat of arms disappeared also then."
Accession number
1983-011-008

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