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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy pocket sundial of post-medieval date. The surviving part consists of the circular body of the sundial (broken at one point) which measures 40.5mm in maximum diameter, 10.6mm in width and 2.2mm in thickness. The rotating inner slide and supension loop are missing. Around the outside surface there is a central groove, 1.8mm wide, part of which has been cut away for a length of 40mm. The sliding section would formerly have sat within this slot. 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: | 1500
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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