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Description: | A cast copper alloy pocket sundial, probably dating from the seventeenth century. The supension loop is broken. The sundial is 37mm in diameter, 11.2mm wide and 2.2mm thick. It weighs 18.92g. Around the outside surface there is a central groove, 1.5mm wide. 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. 1-12 engraved three times in horizontal lines (representing the hours of the day), the top line followed by a letter S, the middle line followed by H and the bottom followed by W. The sundial would have been hung from a chain or thread, and a central slide moved to the correct month of the year to allow the sun to shine through the slot onto the hour of the day. Similar examples have been recorded in Somerset, and can be found at SOM-51DBE6 and SOM-21B141.
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