Accession No

1181

Brief Description

ring dial, English, 1/2 18th Century

Origin

England

Maker

Class

dials

Earliest Date

1700

Latest Date

1752

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass)

Dimensions

diameter 34mm; thickness 12mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, University of Cambridge (now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) in 09/1953.

Inscription

Description Notes

Brass (lacks fitted suspension loop and sliding ring with single pinhole gnomon). On the outer face a date scale divided to initialled month, subdivided to 10 days. On the inner face an hour scale divided 4 - 12, 1 - 8, numbered by 1.

fair condition; missing gnomon

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