The book of sun-dials; originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty; now enl. and re-edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd (1900)
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty, Lloyd, Eleanor, Evans, Lewis · London, G. Bell · leaf 116
century, while Dr. Haighthought that the lines indicated the decimal time-division of the Jutes,and agreed with Professor Stephens of Copenhagen in assigning a verj-early date, the fifth or sixth century, to the dial. Mr. Lewis Evanssuggests that it may have been a nocturnal dial, to be used by… … CLEOBURY MORTIMER. accuracy of this has been questioned. The dial is still in the posses-sion of Dr. Whitcombe of Birmingham, but, unfortunately, it has notbeen possible to obtain a fresh examination of it. A small pear-shaped stone, measuring nearly 5 inches by 2 inches,and I inch thick, was found…
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