A rain-soaked early 19th Century sundial in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens. Despite our prevailing climate, Scotland has a surprsingly long history and abundance of sundials going back to the 16th Century. This includes obelisk sundials, which are unique to Scotland.
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The magnificent sundial in King's Park in Glasgow. Dating from 1885, it's a replica of one originally made in 1635 and which is located in Newbattle Abbey House in Midlothian.
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The sundial in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens. Despite our prevailing climate, Scotland has a surprsingly long history of sundials going back to the 16th Century. This includes obelisk sundials, which are unique to Scotland.
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Despite its reputation for being a bit rainy at times, Scotland has more historic sundials than anywhere else in the world, mostly dating from the 17th and 18th Centuries. There is even a type, known as an obelisk sundial, which is unique to Scotland. Many, like this one, have multiple dials and gnomons (the bit which casts the shadow used to tell the time), and were probably designed more to be decorative than functional.
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The magnificent sundial in King's Park in Glasgow. Dating from 1885, it's a replica of one originally made in 1635 and which is located in Newbattle Abbey House in Midlothian.
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It's in a rather poor state of repair, with the main sundial on the top missing, and most of the subsiduary gnomons either missing or broken, but it's still a rather interesting example of a Scottish sundial, of which there are surprsingly many.
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Dating from the mid-1800s (making it older than the university buildings themselves), it's thought to have been made by William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, or his father James Thomson. It was originally sited in the garden of Torridon House in Bearsden and was bequeathed to the university in 1964.
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The Kelvin Sundial in front of the main building of Glasgow University. It consists of a stone globe which originally had multiple gnomons (the bit that casts the shadow) and dials, which appear to tell the concurrent time in different parts of the world. It also features a quote in Latin which translates as "I only count the bright hours".
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