On Fri 10 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Diallists, > > I have just received a newspaper cutting dated 5th December 1996, stating > that the 300-year old sundial outside Mawgan Parish church, The Lizard, > Cornwall has been stolen. It has a brass (now verdigis coated) > octagonal dial plate and a thick solid gnomon with a sigmoidal trailing > edge. It was made by John Worgan. > > If anyone sees this dial it would be nice to have it restored to its > correct location. Please contact the police at Helston, Cornwall, England. > Peter Tandy > Department of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, > Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD > Tel: +44 (0)171-938-8778 > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > m.ac.uk.
Dear Peter, In my view, the sundials of Cornwall are a major UK cultural treasure. It will be a tragedy if they all disappear. The one at St Mawgan is not one of the finest (none of the horizontal ones are), but I have posted two jpegs of the dial (taken fairly recently) which will serve for identification. These can be found at http://www.compulink.co.uk/~abouttime/maw1.jpg and http://www.compulink.co.uk/~abouttime/maw2.jpg They are both about 40k in size. Mike. -- Michael Manning, AboutTime, http://www.compulink.co.uk/~abouttime/
