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Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems (1902)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York; London : Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 116

An illustration from Sun dials and roses of yesterday; garden delights which are here displayed in every truth and are moreover regarded as emblems, 1902, leaf 116
ur-teen and a half feet high, originally the shaft of afine cross which added two and a half feet to itsheight. The cross blew down about three hundredyears ago, and was sent to a collector of antiquities.Lord William Howard, for preservation ; but itswhereabouts is now unknown. The carvings onthis… … t3C GUJ o3 03X O .55-3 oO Classification of Sun-dials 73 a manner that the dial is proved part of the origi-nal design, not a later addition. The date of thissun-dial is 670 a.d., for the inscriptions have beendeciphered and • translated thus by the Bishop ofBristol : — This thin sign of victory…

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