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Description: | Post medieval sundial; cast copper alloy ring sundial of 17th or 18th century date. The sundial is of the simple ring type but missing its sliding collar. It therefore consists of a broad, flat, copper alloy ring with a channel cut in the centre along its circumference. This channel is indented most of the way around but is pierced all the way through in two places, forming slits at two points around the ring. It is marked on the exterior with horizontal gradation lines and the initials of the months of the year, in groups of three arranged to either side of the slits, so that one slit has ??I F M?? and ??O N D?? around it (for the first and last months of the year) and the other slit has ??A M I?? and ??I A S?? (for the middle section of the year). Between these the letters ??S H W?? are marked beside further gradations. The interior is marked with diagonal gradation lines with digits representing the hours of the day. There is a small suspension loop on the exterior, formed from a thin, circular wire attached at both ends.
Diameter 50.7mm, width of band 11.2mm, thickness 1.8mm, weight 18.91g
Ref: Turner, G L??E ??Antique Scientific Instruments??, 1980 (pp. 25) | Subjects: | ring | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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