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.
Four dials are located around the base of a Mercat Cross (a Scottish Market Cross). Roman numerals for BST hours, using XII and IV, and declination lines with zodiacal symbols. The NE dial shows 3am - 9am; SE 7am - 3pm; SW 11am - 8pm; NW 5pm - 10pm. The SW dial has an EOT graph (’Seasonal Adjustment’) including longitude correction.
The total height of the cross is approximately 37 feet. An 8 foot high square plinth is surrounded by flagstone steps, and surmounted by a tapering square column 20.5 feet high, all of Clarsach stone. The column supprts an 8 foot high Unicorn. Four images of a hunting falcon are attached to the column, showing four stages of an attack on a wood pigeon.
The obelisk was designed, and the bronzes were cast, by Gerald Laing, and the dials were delineated by Dr Kenneth Mackay and Emma Lavender.
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Falcon Square, Town Centre, Inverness, Highland Region
