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he recorded, as opposed to listed, is not
known.21 Neither is it known who assisted him in his
searches.22 Interestingly Grove cites (in addition to
Winzar and Welland) credits for Peter Lambert, R.J. Spain and
Mrs C. Young. Clearly not all the detailed researches of the
1970s have yet found their way into the public domain. Hopefully
these have not been irretrievably lost and await (re)discovery.
During the 1990s Chambers began his as yet
uncompleted photographic recording. The British Sundial Society
has also received ad hoc reports and recorded individual dials
and churches. Extensive and valuable as all this work is, it
does not yet constitute a completed county recording – a task
The British Sundial Society has completed for about a dozen
counties.
Combining the individual listings, scratch dials
have been noted on 135 separate Kentish churches (Table 2 and
Fig. 3). Table 2 also shows the prevalence of multiple
dials. Whilst at first sight such redundancy might appear odd,
over the centuries there would have been several triggers
TABLE 2. KENTa CHURCHES WITH
SCRATCH DIAL(S)
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