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.
The dial is high on the south-west face of the building, in the gable above the second floor windows. Across the top is ’LOCAL SOLAR TIME’ in diminishing text, and across the base is inscribed ’TIME 12½ min W. / LAT 55° 57½’ N.’. The dial identifies minutes to add to obtain GMT, rather than the conventional longitude, the 12 minutes representing the location of the dial 3 degrees west of Greenwich, with a difference of four minutes per degree. The hour numerals are aligned to the hour lines, which run to a semicircle around the gnomon root, and are IX - XII - IIII - IX, though the afternoon hours and lines are hard to decipher.
The dial is similar to SRN 7711 at Peebles, some 30 km south, and may be by the same hand.
2022
36, Portobello High Street, Edinburgh, EH15 1DA, Lothian Region
SRN
Year
Recorded
Coords
S8305
18xx
2021
55.95511, -3.12903 N 55° 57' 18.4", W 03° 07' 44.5"
