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 79
aigh found an explana-tion, as we have seen, in the different time systems which prevailedamongst the various tribes by whom England was conquered—Jute,Saxon, Angle, Norse, Danish. Other archaeologists have consideredthat the main divisions, and probably the crossed lines, marked thefive canonical… … having probably been added for secular uses. The unequal or tem-porary hours were still in use when these dials were made. Bedestates that the hours were shorter or longer according to the season,and this method of reckoning lasted for several centuries. As thegnomon seems to have been placed…
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