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View full screenReproduction of an 18th century cross-staff in Sjofartsmuseum, Bergen, with a cross bar made of pearwood and scales engraved on an ebony centre bar, 1929
T.1929.140
Bergen, Norway, Northern Europe
1929
Ebony centre bar, pearwood cross bar
Owner of original: Sjofartsmuseum, Bergen
Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Horsburgh, Ellice M., 'The cross-staff and its use in navigation', The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol 46, March 1930, pp 92-100
Morzer Bruyns, W.F.J., The Cross-staff: History and Development of a Navigational Instrument, Amsterdam, 1994, p 71 item 54, where the original and replica are discussed
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