Newark Park [NT], Ozleworth

The dial stands on an octagonal pedestal in a private walled garden to the east of the house. In the centre is an 8-point compass rose with a stylised floral border, labelled to NW etc. The deeply incised hours are IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, 4am to 8am read from the inside, the rest from the outsside, with a noon gap and divided to 30, 15, and 5 minutes, the half hours indicated by stylised fleur-de-lys radiating inwards. An inscription at the south reads ’ Cosbey[?] Ashdon’. The dial is said to be of Welsh slate and to have come from Saffron Walden to Newark Park in the 1970s. It has a stout ferrous painted gnomon, possibly a replacement, and said to be too thick at about 6mm. Note there is a very similar dial in Northampton Museum, signed ’Cosby, Wappenham’.