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Fairfax  
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Sundial: 432
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State/Province:  Virginia |
Country:  USA |
Dial Type:  Equatorial Dial |
Condition:  Excellent |
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Latitude and Longitude: |
38° 49.710' N  77° 17.261' W |
Location: |
- Garden of Time at the
Fairfax Memorial Park
9900 Braddock Road, Fairfax, VA 22032
one mile east of George Mason University.
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Description: |
- This bronze equatorial dial is about four feet in diameter with a 6 inch equatorial band containing raised Roman hour numbers from 5am to 7pm. The band is graduated every ten minutes and is offset by approximately 8 minutes to read Eastern Apparent Time. The gnomon is a simple arrow without nodus and the dial does not have an analemma. The octagonal dial base is made of brown marble panels approximately 5 feet high with a smaller octagon on top approximately 1 foot high that supports the dial. Each octagon is capped with thick granite. The base is a mausoleum, with alternate octagonal sides each containing 8 crypts.
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General Information: | - Owner: Fairfax Memorial Park
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Last Revised: 2019-02-09 20:22