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Horizontal Dial
Unsigned
circa 1500; English
Brass; 31 mm in diameter

This brass hour ring probably belonged to a horizontal compass dial, and was found in Norfolk or Suffolk. The hours are marked IIII to [XII] to VI and there is a small hook for the gnomon on the rim of the ring.

Ilaria Meliconi

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Inventory number 41469

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