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.
This fine brass horizontal dial is sometimes mounted on a baluster pedestal at the bottom of the steps from the terrace but is removed indoors for safe keeping. It is signed by the maker Benjamin Scott who worked in London from 1712 to 1747 when he went to St Petersburg. It measures 397mm in diameter and shows the hours IIII - VIII divided into halves, quarters and eighths with a minute scale with Arabic numerals at 10 minute uintervals on an outer ring. The half hour markers have a fleur-de-lys decoration. The coat of arms of the Earl of Orkney and its motto ’Through’ appear on the dial together with an anticlockwise Equation of Time scale and a 16-point compass rose with a floral infill.
