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?
Thibaud Chabot
What do you mean by a scratch dial?
An ordinary sundial scratched into the stone?
Believe me you may fiind such dials from Greece till Denmark, from Portugal till Poland, and I would say there are about 500 of them on the continent, the first made in Roman times the last in the 17th century.
With kind regards Karlheinz Schaldach
