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Anglo-Saxon Sundials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Arthur Robert Green
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Sundials belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period have not received much attention from archaeologists, and a complete list of all existing specimens should be of some value; indeed, Professor Baldwin Brown in The Arts in Early England, vol. ii, 1925, says ‘a full list of existing Saxon sundials…is a desideratum’.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1928 , pp. 489 - 516
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1928

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References

page 490 note 1 Sundials, incised dials or Mass-clocks, S.P.C.K., 1926.

page 491 note 1 There is never more than one Saxon dial on a church, but Mass-clocks are often duplicated, and I have seen as many as eight incised on one buttress.

page 493 note 1 The word ‘tide’ in Old English meant ‘time’ and it was not till long after the Conquest that it was applied to the periodical rise and fall of the sea.

page 501 note 1 The Arts of Early England, ii, 308.

page 511 note 1 Methuen's Little Guide.

page 511 note 2 An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, by Thomas Rickman.

page 513 note 1 I am indebted to Mr. E. A. Greening-Lamborn for drawing my attention to this dial.