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 a memorial to miners who died at the Bettisfield colliery, and is mounted on a large industrial gear wheel. The gnomon is in the form of a miner’s pick. There is a plaque on the dial face, with an Equation of Time graph and instructions for longitude and BST correction. The inscription is "I’r Rhai a ddisgynnod o olau dydd daearol ac aros mewn tywyllwch y ddaear dragwyddol" (In memory of the colliers who descended into darkness never to see the light of day again). The font used for the inscription is Peter Carlyle’s own design.
Ref: BSS Bulletin 35(i), March 2023, pp 20-21
