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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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Skaill House, Sandness

The dial is in the courtyard. The stone dial slab is spalling, and very little of the furniture can be seen. It appears to use IIII and there is evidence of the noon line. The gnomon is a right triangular sheet relieved only by a shallow ’S’ back edge. It is set on the diagonal of the dialplate, and the whole plate is offset 45 degrees on a square section stone column with mid-chamfered edges and this in turn is offset 45 degrees on a square plinth. It was reported in September 2019 that the dial plate is only loosely set on the pedestal and is not correctly aligned or properly set up.

 

Image of dial 5900
2013
Image of dial 5900
2013
Image of dial 5900
2017
Image of dial 5900
2017

Skaill House, Breckness Estate, Sandness, Orkney Islands

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S5900 1668 2019 59.04000, -3.33600
N 59° 02' 24", W 03° 20' 09.6"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
HY23431775
Condition Type Access
Poor Horizontal Restricted
Maker Materials Dimensions
Sandstone, bronze 500 square