This is great, thanks Fred. After seeing this and also seeing so many really old dials in the BSS Bulletin it makes me wonder about a question that might make an interesting thread...
What is the oldest dial in North America? Are there any unique ways that old dials here in the New World differ from their European counterparts? Best, Jim Tallman www.spectrasundial.com www.artisanindustrials.com jtall...@artisanindustrials.com 513-253-5497 Fred Sawyer <fwsaw...@gmail.com> wrote: >An exciting find in the Jamestown excavation - a 17th century diptych dial. > >See the article at: > >http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2012/article/archaeologists-unearth-rare-17th-century-find-at-jamestown-excavationshttp://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2012/article/archaeologists-unearth-rare-17th-century-find-at-jamestown-excavations > >Be sure to view the video that shows the actual uncovering of the dial and >the reverse engineering that determined the latitude for which it was >made. Note that the dialing scale the archeologist is using is a NASS >scale I provided to members many years ago at the first NASS conference. >(BTW if you haven't yet sent in your registration for this year's >conference in Asheville NC, please do it soon!) I believe the instructions >he was using came from the Compendium article by Steve Woodbury. > >Fred Sawyer > >--------------------------------------------------- >https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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