Hexfoils (aka Hexafoils) / Daisy Wheels and similar designs that are currently added to the Apotropaic page. I’ll probable put (some of) these on that page too.
“The hexfoil is a design with six-fold dihedral symmetry composed from six vesica piscis”
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ST MICHAEL . BLACKFORD . SOMERSET
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ST MARY MAGDALENE . LODERS . DORSET
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When I originally wrote up this interesting dial with its double ring of pocks, I noted the 2 (part) circles at the side. One has no discernible marks; the other has very faint marks that on closer examination are the remains of a badly eroded hexfoil with a small amount of the compass work still faintly visible.
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ST MARY . LITTLE WASHBOURNE . GLOS
A large eroded hexfoil to the R of the entrance to this intriguing small Norman church that stands alone in an orchard. In the care of CCT.
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ST THOMAS À BECKET . LYDLINCH . DORSET
A confusing 3-petal hexfoil (trefoil?) / daisy wheel, with other apotropaic marks
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ALL SAINTS . KINGS BROMLEY . STAFFS
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Crude hexfoil of uncertain age – unconvincing as a medieval design
GAUDIUM SUB SOLE . SUNDIALS . MEDIEVAL TO MODERN 