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Saughton Park, Edinburgh
Tall ornately decorated baluster sundial raised on 2 octagonal steps. A small circular vertical dial on each of the cardinal points. The dials and finial are reported to be 17thC and the rest is 19thC. Stubs of gnomons only on all four faces. Arabic numerals on all dial faces - 4am to 10am on east; 4am to 6am, and 6pm to 8pm, on west; 1pm to 9pm on west and 6am to 6pm on south, with noon gap. Numerous mottos inc "Tak tent o time ere time be tint" and "As a shadow so doth life pass".
Located in the walled rose garden to the south of the playing fields. The dial is apparently the remaining vestige of Saughton House, a 17thC villa that burned down in the mid 20thC.
