Hi all
I've a contact with Susanna Kuokkanen, a student of archeology of the
University of Oulu, Finland.
Oulu is quite close to the polar circle, on the gulf of Botnia.
A star-shaped sundial was found during an axcavation for the
construction of a building in Tornio.
Tornio is just at the top of the gulf, on the border with Sweden.
Susanna sent me the photos of the sundial, you can see the card FI8 in
Sundial Atlas (www.sundialatlas.eu/atlas.php?so=FI8).
It is an equinoctial sundial, star-shaped with 12 points, and another
sundial on its upper surface, without the gnomon.
Susanna was instructed by the university to do a research, later the
sundial will be moved to the Tornio museum.
She hasn't gnomonic notions and she found in Sundial Atlas some
star-shaped sundials and, above all, the menu 'gnomolab' where there are
many models of paper sundials. One of these, the app 7, is a star-shaped
sundial strikling similar with the find of Tornio.
I helped her to build the paper sundial for her latitude and it shows
the same indications.
In the area of Tornio there were many merchants from XVI to XVIII
centuries, it was a rich area for the fur market, and she thinks the
sundial come from another southern area, carried by one of these merchants.
I asked her news about the basement, it'd have clarified the latitudine
of its origin, but it wasn't found.
I'm writing a report for her with explanations how a star-shaped works
but an important point of her research is to understand the origin of
the sundial.
Have you some ideas about the probable provenance ?
thank you, Fabio
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Fabio Savian
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www.nonvedolora.eu
Paderno Dugnano, Milano, Italy
45° 34' 9'' N, 9° 9' 54'' E, UTC +1 (DST +2)
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