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and key saltirewise for crest. Beneath the
shield & in cursive letters - 17 B.D. I.S. 05.
The lintel of the dining room fireplace also
at Ackergill bears the date of 1692 and the interwined
monogram of William Dunbar and his wife
W.D. I.S.
Returning to Wick from Hempriggs I called on
ex-baillie Simpson to inspect a font he has.

[Margin] Font
from St. Ninians chapel.

It lies in the garden of Fernbank Villa and is
said to have come from the site of St. Ninian's
chapel in the High St. Wick. It is a block
of sandstone some 2' square with the angles
roughly chamfered. The basin is circular with
a diameter of 1'.7" and depth of 10". The thickness
of the block is 1'. There are in the garden
a number of knocking stones & querns etc.
Two of the former are almost identical in size
with the so-called font at Strikoke!

[Opposite page]
[Sketch of quern inserted]

There is a quern of micaceous schist which
was found many feet below the surface
when the foundations of the post office in Wick
were being dug. It is peculiar in having a
protuberance or handle cut from the solid
projecting horizontally from the edge of the upper stone
some 2" or 3".
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