Sundials 12 The Meadows

TAK TENT O’ TIME ERE TIME BE TINT
(Take account of time before your time is finished)  
So it says on top of the pedestal here but only a giant could actually read this sundial on top, assuming that the tall trees were not casting a shadow on the dial.  
The sundial was erected to commemorate the opening of the International Exhibition in The Meadows in Edinburgh on May 8th 1886.  I’d passed this several times but hadn’t really had a good look at the complex pillar which is made up of stone from different quarries with the names of each quarry together with the mason marks.  According to the architect’s drawing there were also sundials halfway up on the sides but I don’t know when they were removed.  Above are the shields and the names of local dignitaries and around the base of the pedestal on each of the eight sides are mottos which I might use on the next sundial blips and I've seen the above motto before on several sundials.