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Anglo-Saxon Sundials
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Sundials belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period have not received much attention from archaeologists, and a complete list of all existing specimens should be of some value; indeed, Professor Baldwin Brown in The Arts in Early England, vol. ii, 1925, says ‘a full list of existing Saxon sundials…is a desideratum’.
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Sundials belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period have not received much attention from archaeologists, and a complete list of all existing specimens should be of some value; indeed, Professor Baldwin Brown in The Arts in Early England, vol.
ii, 1925, says ‘a full list of existing Saxon sundials…is a desideratum’.
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