Dear Sara,
By chance, if you are in Durham for September 2013 you will be able to
see the Lindisfarne Gospels, a famous gospel book which will be in the
Cathedral on loan from the British Library in London for the month of
September. Lending this book has been called the world's number one
outside loan. Do look it up on line, it's stunning. Don't miss the cat
round the edge of one page, with seven birds inside it.
By the way, don't accept all you hear about Bewcastle being the oldest
U.K. dial, not while Escomb lives! Joking apart, the runes on which the
Bewcastle dial has been dated are totally unreadable and the
transcriptions are pretty fanciful. It's pretty certain that both dials
are from around 700.
If I can help in suggesting an itinerary do please let me know. Kevin is
right about Jarrow and Bede and it would be nice for you to go into the
church at Pittington as well as seeing the double-hour mass dial there.
Newcastle has the dial made by Wigham Richardson for his shipyard. He
wrote the appendix in Mrs. Gatty on how to make a sundial. Also there is
Dial Cottage, home of George Stephenson, the railway engineer, with his
dial over the door, but which was beyond his capacity and was calculated
by his son, Robert, aged 13!
Best,
Frank
On 23/01/2013 15:39, Schechner, Sara wrote:
Excellent idea! I'll suggest that we head to Durham! Thanks!
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