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David Hawker
September 2023
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Reports the results of the 2023 BSS Photographic Competition, which attracted twelve entries and was voted on by delegates at the Exeter Conference. Winners included Mike Shaw (First Place, heliochronometer), John Allen (Second Place, Basilica of San Petronio), and Jackie Jones (Third Place, Polesden Lacey).
Dials: Heliochronometer, Dials: Noon Lines, The BSS and Members
September 2020
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Page 46
Reports the results of the 2020 BSS Photographic Competition, which was moved online due to the inability to hold the Annual Conference. Mike Shaw won first place for 'Time….. Flys'.
The BSS and Members
June 2018
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Page 37
Summarises the results of the Photographic Competition held at the Norwich Annual Conference. David Le Conte won first place, Mike Shaw second, and Ian Butson third. The competition received 26 entries from eleven members, including participants from overseas.
The BSS and Members
September 2017
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This reports on a rare portable standing ring dial by 'J. Sisson, London', likely Jonathan Sisson (c. 1690–1747). The high-quality brass dial includes latitude and hour rings, alidades, and a Watch Faster/Slower chart on the base. The chart's data matches John Flamsteed's 1702 tables, suggesting the dial was made before the 1730s.
Dials: Portable, Dials: Unusual, Equation of Time, Historical Dials
December 2017
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A detailed report on the BSS one-day meeting, summarising talks on topics including the Fort Belan sundial, DIY heliochronometers, multi-centre delineation, promotion via social media, the astronomical Culpeper dial, the Gnomonical Universal Nomograph (GUN), and the mechanical generation of the Equation of Time using equation clocks.
Dials: Heliochronometer, Equation of Time, Historical Dials, The BSS and Members
September 2014
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Page 11
Descriptions of three distinct sundials seen in Denmark: a Piet Hein helical sundial at Fredensborg Palace, a dated (1655) vertical declining dial in Helsingør, and a canonical dial dating to c. 1200 at Vestervig Kirke in Jutland, which indicates unequal hours for monastic prayers.
Dials: Unusual, Dials: Vertical, Historical Dials
December 2013
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Page 21
Contains letters regarding: (1) a "three-plate" dial found at a pub in Goudhurst, Kent, signed Jas Smythe 1692, suspected to be a fake; and (2) a systematic procedure for levelling universal equinoctial dials using three adjusting screws.
Dialling Tools, Historical Dials
December 2013
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Page 28
A report on a rare, unfinished, broken stone horizontal dial found in the foundations of the Tudor gatehouse at Scadbury Park, Kent. Dated circa 1550, its calculated hour lines suggest delineation for a significantly higher latitude (possibly 56°) than its find location (51.4° N).
Construction Projects, Dials: Horizontal, Historical Dials, Mathematics of Dialling