What is recorded here

Crail, Castle Promenade, Sundial stands as a recorded sundial in Fife, Scotland, marked on the official map to the nearest metre. The promenade invites walkers to watch shadows stretch across stone while the sea breeze moves around them. Whether the dial measured market hours or merely decorated a royal walk remains unknown, but sunlight still traces its purpose without explanation.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crail, Castle Promenade, Sundial as Sundial (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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