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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy pocket sundial of post-medieval date. The distorted fragment measures 32.48mm by 31.76mm by 1.92mm and weighs 9.73g. The rotating inner slide, supension loop and part of the main hoop are missing. Around the outside surface there is a central groove, 2mm wide, part of which has been cut away for a length of 39mm. The sliding section would formerly have sat within this slot. On one side of the slot the metal has split. On the exterior face there are engraved measurement lines and the first letters of the months of the year: I F M [A M I] on one side and [I A S O] N D on the other. On the interior face there are engraved numbers representing the hours of the day. This sundial probably dates from the seventeenth century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1600
1699 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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