Volume 4: South-East England

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Current Display: Marsh Baldon 01, Oxfordshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Built externally into the south wall of the church over the south door, inside the porch
Evidence for Discovery
First recorded in Keyser 1904
Church Dedication
St Peter
Present Condition
Good
Description
On a rectangular panel with its upper corners cut away is a circular dial framed by a half-round cable moulding. The small drilled gnomon hole is on the vertical axis, displaced towards the upper edge of the dial. The lower two-thirds of the face is calibrated by five equally-spaced incised lines. The vertical and outer lines terminate in short transverse incised lines. The ends of the intermediate lines are pecked.
Discussion
This dial uses the standard pre-Conquest calibration, but with the mid-tide lines at 6 am and 6 pm missing as a result of the gnomon hole being displaced towards the upper edge of the dial from its usual position in the centre. Only the dial at Winchester (St Maurice) no. 2, shares this feature (Ill. 672).
Date
Eleventh century
References
Keyser 1904, 3; Green 1928, 513 - 14, fig. 22; Cottrill 1931, appendix; Salzman 1939, 369, 371; Lobel 1957, 45; Zinner 1964, iv, 127; Bowen and Page 1967, 288 - 9; Sherwood and Pevsner 1974, 698; Tweddle 1986b, i, 84 - 5, 187 - 9, ii, 423 - 4, iii, pl. 67a
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