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Shark Bone Ring
3D model of a shark bone ring. During excavation, over 70 vertebrae from the porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, were found, nearly all between the Choir and central nave of the church. Like this seen here, these bones had been worked on and shaped into rings. They are probably the rings on which hung the curtain that church audits described at this location. In the old days, porbeagle shark bones were …
Creator
- cineg
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- bone (material)
- animal material
- rings (object genres)
- coverings and hangings
- Animal product
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- cineg
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- bone (material)
- animal material
- rings (object genres)
- coverings and hangings
- Animal product
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 2018
- 2018
Temporal
- 16th century CE
Places
- Skriðuklaustur Monastery
Provenance
- Digitisation by Open Virtual Worlds, a research team within the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, in cooperation with the Gunnar Gunnarsson Institute at Skriðuklaustur and the National Museum of Iceland. 3D digitisation was done by Catherine Cassidy and Iain Oliver with archaeological assistance provided by Skúli Gunnarsson. ; Photogrammetry
Identifier
- share3d:1002
- share3d:1002
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- Share3D
- United Kingdom
Relations
- https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/shark-bone-ring-a86d5dd820da4c45aca690fdc64227d4
Year
- 2018
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2023-02-03T10:13:06.494Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-11-20T14:03:24.199Z