A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



indicating the da?g-m2'l point — sun in E.S.E. Not one of the divisional lines 



is quite accurate ; least so are those above the equinoctial." The side here 



shown vv^as the one noticed by the 

 Rev. J. T. Fowler in 1863. The other, 

 since brought to view, has eight con- 

 centric circles and the rune, in much 

 the same position. 



Hamster ley. — In the 'church 

 there is a circle with a central hole, 

 but no hour lines.' ^ 



Hart. — A fine example is here 



built into the west wall of the nave. 



It is cut on a slab i foot 6 inches by 



Sundial at Darungton. 1 1 i^ches ; all the lines are raised in 



semi-circular section, f of an inch 



high, and divide the semicircle into eight parts. The hole for the gnomon 



remains. There are no distinguishing marks on the dividing lines. 



Middleto7i St. George. — An early dial is here built into the south wall of 



the Early English church. 



Pittiiigton. — The dial here figured is at Pittington Hallgarth. It is 



manifestly of an early date, and is thus described by Dr. Haigh :' ' It exhibits 



six divisions of day time. It will be 



observed that the mid-day line has a 



cross-bar ; that each of the lines be- 

 tween it and the equinoctial has a dot 



at about two-thirds of its length ; and 



that those and the mid-day line have 



each a little square at its extremity. 



This is a very remarkable feature. I 



think it will be admitted that we have 



here a reminiscence of a fashion of 



dialling (of which theWallsend example 



is a relic) in which the trine marks were blocks of stone arranged in a circle 



round the gnomon.' 



Staindrop. — In the wall to the north of and above the chancel arch is 



rather more than half of an early dial. It is upside down. The semicircle 



is divided into four, and is circumscribed by a raised bead. Curiously, the 



field is not left flat, but is worked with a rise towards the gnomon, the hole 



for which remains.* 



' The Book 0/ Suru/ia/s {cnhrgcd cd. Eden and Lloyd, 1900), 53 ; 7'oti. Arch. Joum. v. 154. 

 ' Book of SunJia/i, op. cit. p. 53. 



' Ibid. 206-7. '''■ '"■ ■■" P- '44 ; T'''"'-'- Dur. Northumb. Arch. Soc. iii. 29. 



♦ Rev. H. C. Lipscomb, Siiim.lrop Church and Monuments, PI. opp. p. 3 ; Rev. J. F. Hodgson, in Tram. 

 Dur. Ncrlhumb. Arch. Soc. iii. 76 n. 



Sundial at Pittington. 



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