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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.

Click here for the BRIDOL main page.

Dial in Borders Region

Octagonal block with 8 vertical and 8 proclining faces each marked as a dial with carved face at the base of each gnomon. Gnomons now reduced to stumps. Wide stone block on top mounted at angle of latitude and covered with hollow dials. Date is as reported but is now unreadable. Lord Haig told ARS that after WW2 the top was broken off revealing a cache of 17C coins. Lord Haig then added some 20C ones during the repair. Set on elegant stone baluster pedestal on 3 step plinth. Ref: A R Somerville, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 117, 1987, "The Ancient Sundials of Scotland".

 

Image of dial 1479
1985
Image of dial 1479
1985
Image of dial 1479
2012
Image of dial 1479
2012
Image of dial 1479
2012

Privare address, Borders Region

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S1479 1691 1985 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Fair Mult Facet Head Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
Sandstone 450 across