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.
A museum attendant believed that this dial came from a house some miles to the west of Alyth, that was demolished. The circular dial is carved into what looks like a rectangular lintel or window head. The letters P, M, B [or R] follow the top arc of the circle. Letters around a central circle (in part weathered away) probably form the motto ‘Ut Hora Sic Fugit Vita’. Arabic numerals are used, with hour lines for 5am to 4pm, with no divisions. There is a clear slot where the gnomon would have been, along the 10am hour line. The date 1673 is very clearly incised below the dial.
2018
2018
Alyth Museum, 6-8 Commercial Street, Alyth, PH11 8AF, Tayside Region
