Many thanks for the offer, David, but I have a number of excellent photos (in sunshine) from John from 2008. The Register says now (I have enhanced it slightly since the 2015 edition, after reviewing all reports and the photos):
“Located on south lawn. Dodecahedron dial with pentagonal faces. Two 'rows' of five dials. Top row reclines, bottom row inclines. All lines and numerals visible, all gnomons intact and 4mm thick. Overall shows 4am to 8pm in hours. The numerals are Arabic, and are in relief as is light scroll work on at least some faces. Mounted 1760 mm high on a stone pedestal. Surmounted by (weathered) lion rampant 460 mm tall. The dial is said to have come from Scotland about 1910.” Nick Nicholls supplied a dimensioned drawing which I will attach to the entry. Do we know Keith Brandt? Is it okay to send him the photos I have? If I do, I will say they and the other info are for private study only and he should refer back if he wants to publish. All the best, John From: David Brown Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 8:48 AM To: John Davis Cc: sundial Subject: Re: Barrington Court multi-face dial Barrington Court is about 15 minutes by car away from where I live. If you want detailed photos, I could get them for you. Best wishes, David Brown Somerset, UK Sent from my iPad On 12 Aug 2017, at 09:56, John Davis <john.davi...@btopenworld.com> wrote: Hi Keith, The Barrington Court dial appeared on the back cover of the September 2013 BSS Bulletin (vol. 25(iii)). The accompanying caption read: "The dodecahedron dial at Barrington Court (NT), Ilminster, Somerset. It featured in the March 2013 issue and is seen here from the south, though none of the dials faces exactly south. It is surprisingly small with the actual polyhedron at not much more than head height. Recorded early in the Society's history (SRN0040), it is in good condition and a nice example. Photo: John Davis." The March 2013 article (by Peter Ransom) is really about an indoor dial and does not provide much more detail of the polyhedral dial, other than saying it has 5 reclining faces on the top row and 5 proclining ones in the bottom row. I'm not sure if the BSS Register has more info. Regards, John ------------------------------------------------ Dr J Davis Flowton Dials http://www.flowton-dials.co.uk/ BSS Editor http://sundialsoc.org.uk/publications/the-bss-bulletin/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Keith E. Brandt, WD9GET" <wd9...@amsat.org> To: sundial <sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de> Sent: Friday, 11 August 2017, 21:09 Subject: Barrington Court multi-face dial Could someone point to/send me a description of the multi-face dial at Barrington Court in Somerset? I'm only finding pictures via standard web searches. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith E. Brandt, MD, MPH wd9...@amsat.org Christianity and science are opposed… but only in the same sense as my thumb and forefinger are opposed- and between them I can grasp everything. —Sir William Bragg (Nobel Prize for Physics- 1915) *This message transmitted with 100% recycled electrons --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
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