"Of course, once I saw the TimeSpace at that site, I had to go look for it in GoogleEarth!"
Of course (!) - and you can even see the Roman numerals - it's so big.! However this dial also has a digital clock associated with it and the numerals you can see on Google Earth relate to the digital clock and not to solar time. Indeed the two time scales are not colocated and so cause confusion. The sundial proper is marked 6am to 5pm though as you say nearby pre-existing buildings make its 'operational' time 8am to 4pm. Incidentally, there is another large dial in Gosport (it's a bronze armillary sphere, 3.5metres diameter) and is in the High Street which is a long pedestrianised street that runs roughly E-W. However I haven't been able to see it just now on Google Earth - it may be slightly obscured by trees... Not bad to have two large dials in one town - but then Gosport is so named as a corruption of "God's Port"; the name given to it by the then Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois, as he sailed into its harbour in 1144. So maybe that's quite appropriate! Patrick --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
