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 slate dial was designed for N55° 4’, W6° 54’, a position near Limavady, Co Donegal. It is now held in Hampshire. It is signed ’Cut by / John Hartey’ and dated ’Jan / 1853’. It shows Arabic hours for 4am to 8pm, read from the inside, with a noon gap, divided to 30, 15 and 5 minutes. In the centre is a 32-point compass rose labelled to NbE etc. Around this is a ring containing the Zodiac names and sigils. At the south is a table for the Equation of Time in four pairs of columns, and around the whole perimeter is a ring with the month names and number of days. The gnomon is a simple bar with an ’S’ support. The dial sits an antique Coade stone pillar on bricks surmounted by a square platform.
