The Recorder - Edinburgh Edition

The Recorder - Edinburgh 2013 Edition

The eleventh edition of the Recorder - An Occasional Newsletter for BSS Recorders, edited by the BSS Registrar John Foad - was issued as usual to those who attended the 2013 Edinburgh Conference of the Society.
Under normal circumstances a PDF of it would have been placed on the Society's website in the days after the meeting. This year that has not taken place - and, incidentally, not even by the time of the 2014 conference.
Sadly, it seems that the British Sundial Society website is no longer being maintained. Sadly too neither is its Facebook page*.

However for the benefit of those who did not go to Edinburgh but who would have been interested to see this edition, here is a short summary of its contents.

	Exploring the Register	An interesting map showing the areas of Great Britain where different dial types have predominance. Areas where Horizontals predominate are coloured red, those with Verticals are green and Multiples are coloured blue.
	Newts!	The Dorset village of Holnest managed to use the prevalence of the Great Crested Newt to prevent a rubbish tip being installed nearby. Their Millennium Dial has an image of a newt as a consequence!
	The Art of Letter Writing	A superb florid letter of 1852 complaining about the restoration of the Morden College, Blackheath dial
	New Features for Recorders	A small panel explaining the higher precision that the Register can now accept
	The Exorcist Dialler	The maker of the dial at St Ives turns out to have been an exorcist!
	The Blacksmith's Art	Pictures of four wonderfully pierced gnomons to be found on vertical dials around England
	Calling all Masons	The two dials in the Register that have connexions with Masonry
	Wordle	A brain twister that mixes up words from the descriptions of dials in a County. You have to guess the County.
	The Most Reported Dial	The dial in Maldon is currently the most recorded dial.
	Top Ten West Sussex Dials	Maureen Harmer selects her top ten dials of West Sussex.

*A new website has been planned for some time now by BSS, though it has been years in the making! In what can only be seen as an extraordinary management decision, the existing website (and even the quite unaffected Facebook page too) have both been largely abandoned in the meantime. It is to be hoped that the Edinburgh Edition of the Recorder will be included on the new website when it does appear. We shall link to it as soon as we can.

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