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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.

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Post Office, Shaftesbury

The dial is inset into the wall. Shows 6am to 6pm in half and some quarter hours. Hour lines emanate from semicircle. Some half hour lines are full length and others not. Two lines above the horizon. Short fork-ended strip gnomon with single supporter. Motto appears to read " ??SO? SPEED WE / BUT THE RECKONING BIDETH".

 

Post Office, 2 Coppice Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8PE, Dorset

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S2005 19xx 1985 51.00611, -2.19389
N 51° 00' 22", W 02° 11' 38"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
ST865230
Condition Type Access
Poor Vertical (S) Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Stone