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Dial of the Month - October 2008

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Aldeburgh, SuffolkSRN 0665 (Vertical) Aldeburgh, Suffolk


A painted plaster and stonework dial on the Moot Hall at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, a building which predates the sundial by some 150 years.  As well as the ever-popular 'Horas Non Numero Nisi Serenas', Gatty tells us that the dial used to carry 'Pereunt et Imputantur', but this has been lost in a later restoration.  Illustrated in Henslow, 'Ye Sundial Booke', with, unusually, an accurate background.