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 commemorates an apocryphal C19th cattle drover known as Katie Wearie, who was supposed to rest under a tree growing on this site, refreshing herself with water from the West Port Well. The gnomon is formed by a bird sitting on a branch at the highest point of the sculpture and the hour lines are marked out on the ground. The terrain of the site means that the sundial is not accurate to the minute, but the general sense of the passage of time is effectively conveyed.
