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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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Dial in Cambridgeshire

The motto across the top of the dial reads: ’Numquam Advenit Dies Crastinus’ (Tomorrow never comes). Gold and platinum markings on black slate. Shows 9am to 7pm in hours via: Noon by gilded bee and hive, 9am/3pm by a gilded bee and rose. Other hours are represented by spoons in platinum. There is a gilded brass double ended arrow gnomon. The dial is on the barn. The house was previously the ’Old Three Horseshoes’ inn, and there is a triple horseshoe device at top of the dial.

 

Privare address, Cambridgeshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S4647 2002 2004 Location private
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
Condition Type Access
Excellent Vertical (D) Private
Maker Materials Dimensions
CStJH Daniel (del) & S Garner Slate/brass 990w x 610h x 23 t