- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Benjamin Cole
- Provenance
- Purchased by exchange.
- Primary inscriptions
- "The Owner Ben Cole Engraver in Oxford, to him that finds it a Reward.".
- Physical material
- Brass
- Object type
- Equinoctial ring dial
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 85mm
- Inventory No
- 85162
- Accession Number
- 1979-63
Description
Brass, with hour-ring marked from 3 am to 9 pm, divided to quarter hours. Quadrant of degrees on reverse of meridian ring, with small hole for suspending a plump-bob.
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