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.
Two cubic finials with ball on top, mounted on pillars in the wall on either side of the house. Corners chamfered to form octagonal dial faces. Arabic numerals. Hours divided to 30 and 10 minutes, the short inward-pointing half hour lines ending in a triple dot. Copper gnomons all in place.
The house was designed and owned by Sir William Bruce, architect. It was built in the 1680s by Dutch stone carvers and masons, but the dials were made by a Scot, John Hamilton ’Mason, Servitor to James Smith, overseer, who was son-in-law to Robert Mylne’.
A R Somerville, The Ancient Sundials of Scotland,1990.
Wills Cigarette Card No 11 dates the dial at 1686.
