the stone, from the pen of Mr J. C. Brooke, F.S.A. of the
Herald's College, was read at the Society of Antiquaries in 1777.

The sundial, without any gnomon, occupies the central portion of the
stone, which is about 7 feet in length, and the inscription is closely
packed in the spaces on either side.

It reads as follows, the lines in brackets having the contractions
expanded:--

[Transcriber's Note: The "|"s below are my best rendition in plain ASCII
of a Saxon ampersand, which is a long vertical bar with a short horizontal
bar at the top, pointing to the left.]

+ ORM . GAMAL . SVNA . BOHTE . SC[=S]
[ + ORM . GAMAL . SUNA . BOHTE . SANCTUS]

GREGORIVS . MINSTER . EthONNE HIT
[GREGORIUS . MINSTER . THONNE HIT]

PES AEL TOBROCAN . | TOFALAN . | HE
[WES AEL TOBROCAN . & TOFALAN . & HE]

HIT IET . MACAN . NEPAN . FROM GRVNDE
[HIT LET . MACAN . NEWAN . FROM GRUNDE]

XPE: | SCS GREGORIVS . IN EADPARD
[CHRISTE: & SANCTUS GREGORIUS . IN EADWARD]

DAGVM C[=N]G | N TOSTI DAGVM EORL +
[DAGUM CYNING & IN TOSTI DAGUM EORL +]

Completed under the dial.

+ | HAPAREth ME PROHTE . | BRAND P[=RS]
[+ & HAWARTH ME WROHTE . & BRAND {PRAEPOSITUS]
{PRESBYTERS]

The modern rendering is generally accepted as: "Orm, the son of Gamal,
bought St Gregory's minster (or church) when it was all broken and fallen,
and caused it to be made anew from the ground for Christ and St Gregory in
the days of King Edward, and in the days of Earl Tosti, and Hawarth
wrought me and Brand the Prior, (priest or priests)."

Along the top of the dial and round the perimeter the inscription reads:--

+ PIS IS DAEGES SOL MERCA
THIS IS DAY'S SUNMARKER

AET ILCVM TIDE
AT EACH TIDE OR HOUR.

It is interesting to know that the antiquaries of a century or more ago
rendered this simple sentence as: "This is a draught exhibiting the time
of day, while the sun is passing to and from the winter-solstice." They
also made a great muddle of the words: "& HE HIT LET MACAN NEWAN," their
rendering being "CHEHITLE AND MAN NEWAN," the translation being supposed
to read: "Chehitle and others renewed it, etc." With Mr Brooke's paper is
given a large steel engraving of the stone, but it is curiously inaccurate
in many details. At Edstone church there is another sundial over the south
doorway as at Kirkdale, and there is every reason to believe that it
belongs to the same period. The inscription above