SOURCES

Books, pamphlets, online resources, relevant websites / blogs and other source material. Reference abbreviations in the GSS posts & pages shown in Bold

SPECIFIC RESEARCH

British Sundial Society (BSS) LINK

Dom Ethelbert Horne (DEH) † Primitive Sun Dials or Scratch Dials 1917. Centered on Somerset

Arthur Robert Green (ARG) † Sundials: Incised Dials or Mass-Clocks. First published 1926; SPCK edition 1978. Centered on Hampshire

Arthur Robert Green (ARG) † Hampshire Field Club paper updating the above entry LINK

T. W. Cole (TWC) † Origin and Use of Church Scratch-Dials (Fourpence) listing c.1300 Churches with dials in Britain (and a few beyond)

T. W. Cole (TWC) † Classification of Church Scratch-Dials (One Penny)

T. W. Cole (TWC) † Scratch-Dials and Medieval Sundials – History and Relation to Scientific Sundials (Fourpence)

Tony Wood (TW) † Mass Dials in Gloucestershire LINK

Margaret Gatty (MG) † The Book of Sun-dials. First published 1872; Digital paperback 2010 CUP

Carolyn Martin (CM) † A Celebration of Cornish Sun Dials – 1994. Centred on Cornwall

Christopher St J H Daniel (CSD) † Sundials. First ed. 1986; reprints; second ed. 2004 – Shire Books

Mark Lennox-Boyd † Sundials: History, Art, People, Science; 2006 – Frances Lincoln

Alexis Brookes, Margaret Stanier † Cambridge Sundials (undated)

Margaret Stanier † Oxford Sundials (2nd Ed. 2004)

Peter Hamilton-Leggatt † A Mass Dial Bibliography LINK

Gordon Le Pard (GLP) † Medieval Sundials Dorset, Dorset Proceedings 119, 1997

E. C .Chancellor (ECC) † Dorset Natural History & Archaeology Society Vol 61 Dec 1939

F. A. B. Ward (FABW) † Time Measurement – Historical Review, Science Museum Part 1 HMSO 1961

GENERAL RESEARCH including online

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England (RCHM)

British Listed Buildings (BLB) LINK

Historic England (HE) LINK

British History Online (BHO) † website for RCHME LINK

Ancient Monuments (AM) † Scheduled monuments, linked to HE LINK

Britain Express (BE) † brief articles on British Heritage LINK

Pevsner † Buildings of England (PEV) (volumes by County)

Simon Jenkins † England’s 1000 Best Churches (SJ)

Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) LINK

Friends of Friendless Churches (FFC) LINK

Dorset Building Stone (DBS) † Specifically, studies of building stone, but much else besides LINK

British Sundial Society (BSS) LINK

Peter Hamilton-Leggatt † A Mass Dial Bibliography LINK

‘Sundials on the Internet’ (a sprawling, eclectic sundial omnium gatherum) LINK

Domesday Book online (DB) LINK

BOOKS & ARTICLES COVERING SPECIFIC COUNTIES

Somerset Dom Ethelbert Horne                 Primitive Sundials (1917); Scratch Dials – Their Description & History (1929)

Dorset Gordon Le Pard                          Dorset Proceedings 119, pp 65-86 (1997)

Dorset E. G. Chancellor Scratch Dials in Dorset – Dorset Nat Hist & Arch Soc Vol LXI 1939 pp 79-85

Derbyshire F N Fisher                     Derbyshire Archaeological Society Journal 2016 (updated 2021)

Hampshire A R Green                             Sundials: Incised Dials or Mass-Clocks (1926, p/b 1978)

Gloucestershire Tony Wood                     Gloucestershire History No 21 pp 16-22 (2007)

Kent Chris H K Williams.                    Archaeologia Cantiana 127 pp 333-354 (2007)

Kent https://kentarchaeology.org.uk/arch-cant/vol/127/scratch-dials-t 

E Sussex (+ W Sussex)      Frederick T Barrett                      Journal of Sussex Archaeological Society (1962)

W Sussex H Michell Whitely                     Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol LX

Cornwall Carolyn Martin                          A Celebration of Cornish Sundials

Herefordshire Richard & Catherine Botzum     Scratch Dials & Unusual Marks on Herefordshire Churches (1988)

Norfolk TBA

Rutland Robert Ovens & Sheila Sleath     Time in Rutland (2002) – History & Gazetteer of…Scratch Dials

Surrey TBA

Wales                              William Linnard                        Archaeologia Cambrensis (CAA) Vol 156 pp141-148

RITUAL MARKS, CONSECRATION CROSSES and GRAFFITI

Mathew Champion † Medieval Graffiti – Lost Voices of England’s Churches – Ebury Press 2015

Brian Hoggard † Magical House Protection

Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey LINK

Raking Light † Historic graffiti, masons’ marks and ritual protection marks LINK