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Inclining sundial

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An octagonal metal dial face, inclining 11 degrees, rests on an elegant ironwork base.
The sundial reads local apparent time to the hour and half-hour.
The hours are indicated by overlaid bronze roman numerals.
A table on the edge of the sundial lists the total longitude and equation-of-time adjustment, in minutes, to be applied to the readout.

A plaque on the sundial shows that housing association “Ons Belang”, on their 75th anniversary in 1994, presented the sundial to the town of Nederlek.

The style triangle shows the sawn-out shape of a whale. A whale also features in the town’s coat of arms, and in the church tower’s wind vane: there used to be a whaling fleet here.