Historic Sundials

A list of historic sundials, mostly in Scotland; please explore and be inspired. Further details of the dials can be found in the following journals and links

  • Cowan, D 2011, ‘The Ancient Sundials of Scotland’ blurb.com. Sundials of Scotland
  • Daniel, C St J H 1986, ‘Sundials’ Shire Album no 176
  • Gatty, A 1900, ‘The book of Sundials’ [Eden & Lloyd (eds).] London – enlarged and re-edited Alfred Gatty; Lewis Evans 2012
  • MacGibbon, D & Ross, T 1892, ‘The Castellated & Domestic Architecture of Scotland’, vol 5. Edinburgh
  • McCrachen, A 1973, ‘Notes on Some Dumfriesshire Sundials’, Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Soc. 3rd Series, Vol 1 (1973), 109-115
  • Rohn, R R J, ‘Sundials – History, Theory, and Practice’ Dover USA
  • Ross, T 1890, ‘The Ancient Sundials of Scotland’, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., 24 (1890), 161-273
  • Sommerville, A R 1987, ‘The Ancient Sundials of Scotland’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 117 (1987), 233-264 & Rogers Turner Books, London 1994
  • Stanier, M 2003, ‘Oxford Sundials’ FieldFare Press Ltd, Cambridge 2003
  • Stevenson, W B 1940, ‘Sundials of six Scottish Counties near Glasgow’, Trans Glasgow Archaeol. Soc., 9 (1940), 227-86
  • Waugh, A E, ‘Sundials – Their Theory and Construction’ Dover Books, London, NY ISBN 0 486 22947 5
  • British Sundial Society
  • British Listed Buildings
  • Historic Scotland
  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
  • Italian Dials

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