Sundial 692
- Dial City: Burlington
- Dial State/Province: Vermont
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 44° 27.468' N
- Dial Nr: 692
- Dial Type: Analemmatic Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 73° 13.410' W
- Dial Owner: City of Burlington
- Dial Designer: Patrick MacManaway, Ivan MacBeth and others
- Dial Maker: David Brizindine and Andrea Morgante
- Dial Date: 2005
- Location:
- About 300 yards north of Oakledge Park along bicycle path on the shore of Lake Champlain Burlington
- Description:
- This Circles of Peace dial is a combination calendrical and analemmatic design consisting of fourteen 5 to 10 foot high granite stones in a 43 foot diameter circle oriented to align with sunset on the solstices, equinoxes and cross-quarter days. An inner sixteen foot major diameter analemmatic dial includes 12 hour marker stones and a central stone that also shows the directions of sunset on the corresponding major dates. The calendar stone calculations and survey placement was done by NASS member Bill Gottesman.
Last Update:
2019-07-31 21:42