SUNDIALS, LARGE AND SMALL
In the days of Queen Elizabeth men often carried pocket sundials,for the purpose of time-telling. Dials of all kinds. were common then, though previous 10,. that time they had been little used 'in 1 England. One of the oldest, which was erected about the time of Edward the . Confessor, is still to be seen over the • south door of Kirkdale Church, in Yorkshire. It bears the inscription: “ Thi.r is the sun’s marker at every hour, and Hayward made me and Brand the priest.” The fashion for dials began to spread until the whole countryside,. particularly in the north and in Scotland, was dotted with them. We see them to-day in interesting forms at St. Andrew’s. Melville House, Holyrood Castle, and Dundas Castle.
The legends engraved on some of these old dials are very quaint. One announces: " Shadows we are, like Shadows we depart.” In China and Japan small dials made of boxwood are still carried and consulted'by their owners.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22498, 16 February 1935, Page 16
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