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 is an equatorial dial marked on both sides for summer and winter. Concentric circles give hours, minutes, dates and compass points. The winter side has a series of concentric circles in the upper half with a long inscription. There is a Coat of Arms on the summer side for the MacLellan family, and the maker’s name and the date. Holes indicate positions where a volvelle or sighting arm would have been fixed for use as a moon dial. This "Bonar" type dial is not a tide predictor like others of the type. It may have been made for Lord Kirkcudbright of MacLellan castle.
Ref: A R Somerville, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 117, 1987, "The Ancient Sundials of Scotland", p24 (B11).
2012
Kirkcudbright Museum (2), Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway
