Sundial
Means of telling time by a shadow meeting a point on a measured scale. Anglo-Saxon examples are at Escomb and Pittington, County Durham, on the church walls. Often found in Post-Medieval gardens will contain these. They tend to be inscribed with details of the person who set the sundial up. It does not necessarily be a measurement of hours - Anglo-Saxon examples sometimes were organised for the tides.
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