Stainless Steel Sundials in their setting
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A memorial sundial
at a golf club in Suffolk
300 x 300 mm. sundial on a Redland Stone plinth | |
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The Spot-On Sundial
on a farm in lowland Scotland
420 x 420 sundial on a natural rock | |
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A Spot-On Sundial
Memorial at a school in Ohio, USA
420 x 420 sundial on a brick plinth | |
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The Spot-On Sundial in a cemetery in Scotland
420 x 420 sundial on a stainless steel plinth made by a local blacksmith | |
The thistle theme of the plinth is continued on the bench ends and, if you look very carefully, on top of the gate post capping there are carved granite thistle heads(they came from the original castle). There is still some planting to be done round the sunken garden
The location of this and other Spot-On sundials in stainless steel are shown on this map |
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The
Spot-On Sundial in a small private garden in Kent,
300 x 300 sundial on a natural stone plinth | |
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Spot-On Sundial in a private garden in southern Germany
420 x 420 sundial on a natural stone plinth | |
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The sundial in daylight
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with its ingenious night lighting
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The
Spot-On Sundial in the garden of the Horniman Museum in south-east
London -
This 420 x 420 Spot-On sundial is part of the Horniman Museum sundial trail | |
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Memorial
sundial at the London Wetlands Centre, Barnes, London
420 x 420 sundial on a solid oak plinth ![]() This sundial is a memorial to Max Nicholson who was much involved with the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust, and many other parts of the environmental movement. (More details on www.maxnicholson.com). The hour lines have Arabic numerals for summer time and Roman for winter time; between the hour lines are short ten-minute lines and five-minute spots. This picture was taken at 17 minutes to 1 in November 2004, just after the sundial was put in place. |
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The mirror-polished
stainless steel gives strong reflections, and the gnomon, which
casts the shadow, appears to "float in air" because the matt circle
appears to be continuous though part of it is in fact a reflection.
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For about 5 minutes
at solar noon, when the sun is at its highest in the sky, a line
of light shines through the slit in the gnomon. This design feature
is used to orient the sundial exactly to true North so that it can
be read to the nearest minute or two |
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The
sundial is located outside the Peacock Tower, a 3-storey hide which
overlooks the old reservoirs beside the River Thames at Barnes in
west London. The tower is seen below with the buildings on the north
side of the river in the background. |
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At a library in Texas 420 x 420 sundial on a natural stone plinth |
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A private garden in Northumberland 420 x 420 sundial on a Haddonstone sandstone plinth |
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By a swimming pool in Sussex 300 x 300 sundial on Chilstone terra-cotta plinth |
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Outside the chapel
of a school in Cumbria 420 x 420 sundial on Chilstone plinth |
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At a school in Wiltshire
420 x 340* sundial on Haddonstone plinth |
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In a walled garden
of a school in S.E. London opening of 420 x 340* sundial on Haddonstone plinth |
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