Fragment of coiled ceramic horn

3D model of a fragment of a 16th-century ceramic trumpet found during the excavation of the Skriðuklaustur monastery in eastern Iceland. ICP-MS analysis revealed that the trumpet was produced in a workshop in Lower Saxony, Germany. From there it was first transported to Bremen or Hamburg and then shipped to Iceland with Hanseatic merchants. Such trumpets were called “pilgrim horns” and were common…