A SUNDIAL depicting the history of a North Yorkshire village has been unveiled.

Residents of Middleton Tyas commissioned it for the village green with money left over from a golden jubilee party last year.

It was made by stonemason John MacLaren, from Leyburn, and contains a time capsule with mementoes of the party.

Jill McMullon, of the village's jubilee committee, said: "It is a wonderful sundial.

"The design on the sides depicts how the copper was mined and the sundial is set in the old stones from the mines."