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.
This 7-ring armillary sphere stands on a roughly-cut stone on a circular bed of gravel surrounded by eight more stone blocks. The gravel extracting consortium that constructed the Olympic lake presented it to Dorney Lake in 2006. The Latin inscription was devised by Eton College scholars and reads, ‘Homines contra homines hic inter harenam acquamque saxumque sed omnes contra tempus contendunt’ meaning ‘Men against men here amongst the sand and water and rock but all struggle against time’.
Ref: www.iwalkalone.co.uk, Marie Keates.
2015
Dorney Lake Park, Boveney, SL4 6QE, Buckinghamshire
