Fife - NT 329951 - Stev 268 - Gatty 151 - Ross 418
A complete obelisk. It has a wedge boss with the corners completely cut away. There are two blank panels on the North side though no inscription or date. The hollows on the shaft are unusually deep. The dial shows stylistic connections with the obelisk at Drummond which is only ten miles from the dial's original home - Invermay.
When Somerville visited the shaft was 180º out of alignment and the finial 90º out. The boss was cracked.
Originally at Invermay but then moved to Pitcairns in the 1930s and finally to the terrace lawn beside Wemyss Castle.
There is also a lectern dial at Wemyss Castle.
Visited 15 September 1982 - A. R. Somerville
Ross was very taken by this dial - seemingly because it was so different yet its development could be traced with just a few leaps of imagination.
An tantalising idea is raised by Somerville haing a reference to the obelisk dial at Wemyss Castle (formerly at Invermay) being carved in Perth in 1640 by John Mylne. If so it would be just 10 years after the pioneering Drummond obelisk dial and be by the same master mason. The Wemyss Castle dial is notably different to later obelisks but clearly related to the Drummond obelisk if nothing else by its separation of boss from finial and base. They could both be seen as being the early experimental phase of obelisk design before it solidified as a typology.