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This article seems to suggest that the Picts used the Crescent and V-rod symbol as a template for a sundial which would have had a horizontal face. If so, then where are these sundials? Nearly all the surviving symbols are depicted on a vertical face, so they are not the sundials. Where a template is used to produce copies, one would expect the copies to outnumber the template - one would expect to find many sundials and a few symbol stones; in fact we have many symbol stones and no sundials.
If the symbol were the suggested mathematically perfect shape, then surely it would be the same in every depiction. Many Pictish symbols are repeated with little or no variation but the Crescent and V-rod varies more than any other Class I symbol, including much variation in details such as the angle of the v-rod and the alignment of this vertex with the tips of the crescent. Such variation would make it useless as a sundial template.
Like many theories put forward to explain the Pictish symbols, this article relies on a coincidence and reflects our human tendency to see patterns and connections. The design of the Crescent and V-rod somewhat resembles an imaginary sundial - so what?
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