Identifier: surreyarchaeolo29surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society
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Publisher: Guildford (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s account of the modern practice of announc-ing the hour as measured by the water-clock in India.The time taken in filling the bowl by percolation isknown as gari or gadli, and is reckoned to be 22^minutes, there being therefore 64 in the 24 hours.1 Ateach sinking of the bowl a gong is struck by theattendant, and it is just possible that we have hererepresented from Essex the gong and beater used bythe ancient Britons for an identical purpose. In anycase, it seems clear that the vessel like a frying-panformed an essential part of the equipment; and the 1 A correction due to Dr. Flett was made after this paper was firstpublished. The ghari, he says, is the sixtieth part of a day, or24 minutes; and bowls sinking in 22^ minutes are therefore inaccurate. FOUND AT WOTTON IN 1914. corollary is that the Sturmere bowls were also water-clocks, though no mention is made in the brief accountquoted above of any perforation. The smaller bowl ishalf the inner diameter of the bowl with flat lip, and
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Fig. 2. BRONZE VESSELS, STURMERE, ESSEX. the latter has practically the same diameter as thelarger hemispherical bowl. It may be presumed thatthe remainder of the find was in poor condition. 6 BRONZE VESSELS OF THE EARLY IRON AGE In the Westhall series, to be noticed later in anotherconnection (p. 9), there is a flat-bottomed bronze vessellike a diminutive frying-pan, the handle unfortunatelymissing. It is 6 in. in diameter, and accompanied by aflat bronze bar 55 in. long with curved projections inthe middle of each side. In view of the Sturm ere andWotton deposits, it is perhaps not fanciful to considerthese also as the gong and hammer used by the attendantin charge of the embossed water-clock of which the baseremains. Another discovery of the same sort was recorded inArchceologia, XIV, 275, PL XLIX, by Sir Joseph Banks

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