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Description: | A broken and bent cast copper-alloy outer frame of a post medieval portable sundial measuring dating from c. AD1600-1750. The frame is broken into two fragments and all surfaces are very worn.This example is of the simple ring type. It is formed of a flat copper alloy ring with a rectangular channel cut in the centre for about a third of its circumference; this contains a separate sliding collar. On the external surface, above and below the channel, there are inscribed measurement lines, above which are the first letters of the months of the year: 'I F M A M I' (the earlier months) above and 'I A S O N D' (the later months) below, upside down. Circumferential lines below the letters continue round the whole external face, as do the lines that border the letters above.On the interior there are similar incised lines directly above and below the channel that go around the whole surface. In a zone between each end of the channel are punched dots, alternately over scored with diagonal and transverse lines. These lines are in turn under numerals denoting hours: '4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12' above and '8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' below. The basic semicircular wire loop is located at a point where the band has been soldered together.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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