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 133
or fylfot, resembling thesun-wheels of Danish relics of the Bronze Age. It is said that there is hardly an unrestored churchin Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, or Leicester-shire but has these circles or imitation dials on its 82 Sun-dials and Roses of Yesterday walls. On this page is given one of… … Saxon Dial on Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton. Saxon dials which were cut only breast high orwhere the central hole could not have held a gnomon,or where the rays are irregular, must be regardedwith suspicion. I may define a squint for two rea-sons : first, for the information of American…
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