Thibaud Chabot wrote:
"I noticed that there are several scratch dials in the UK and Ireland,
but there are hardly any on the Continent. When I mentioned this to a
historian he right away said: "but there was never anyone of the
Benedictine order in the UK or Ireland, so that sounds logic". Is there
an explanation for this difference?"
It is clear from later messages that crude scratch dials do exist in
numbers on the continental mainland too. And there were plenty of
Benedictines in England after the Conquest of 1066, Durham Cathedral
being a well-known example.
But my question is the opposite. It is this. Why did carefully made
dials of the "D" type, quite common in pre-Conquest times in England,
totally disappear after the eleventh century while they remained common
on the Continent?
Frank 55N 1W
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Frank Evans
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