Almost broken it was removed and stored in a yard, where year after year it vanished away. Near the museum entrance a 1656 slate sundial is fixed under a window. In the past it was in a castle, now vanished. And it's a good opportunity to have a close look at one of them. Here carving is in relief, it could have been shallow.
Style is usually a mere iron rod formed as a triangle.
Unfortunately some examples of these bad dials are spread along our trail. We shall ignore them. The one in Saint-Th gonnec is only known dial carved in a kind of granit, the granit de Kersanton named from the hamlet which it is extracted from, just at the entrance of the Crozon peninsula. This granit has a very fine grain, it is hard, difficult to carve, but long lasting. Most of the great monumental calvaries are made with it.