BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.
Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.
This dial was originally from Kenmuir Castle, New Galloway, now destroyed, and was given to the museum in 1970. It is an equatorial dial on both sides for summer and winter. Concentric circles give hours, minutes, date, zodiac and compass points, indicating establishments for British coastal ports. Extra space is filled with Latin and English inscriptions, maker’s name, date etc. Holes indicate positions where a volvelle or sighting arm would have been fixed for use as a moon dial and tide predictor.
Ref: Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. 24 222 & 44 169. Ulster J.Arch.VII 161 (1901); A R Somerville, The Ancient Sundials of Scotland,1990
