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The Antrim Cross
The Antrim Cross is a bronze cross with five equal arms from the early 9th century. The cross has five pyramidal bosses each in the form of a truncated pyramid. The side of the pyramids are decorated with interlocking angular fields of yellow enamel, alternating with a similar-coloured design of an arrow within a truncated triangle.
The pyramidal boss at the centre is taller and is decorated wit…
Creator
- Hunt Museum, as part of the Art of Reading in the Middle Ages project.
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Reading Culture
- Medieval Reading Culture
- Antrim
- Millefiori Enamel
- Enamelled
- Reading Culture (Monastic)
- Reading Culture (Devotional)
- Ireland
- Cast Bronze
- …
- bronze (metal)
- enamels (visual works)
- archaeology
- religious objects
- Reading culture
- Middle Ages
- Bronze
- Archaeology
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- Hunt Museum, as part of the Art of Reading in the Middle Ages project.
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Reading Culture
- Medieval Reading Culture
- Antrim
- Millefiori Enamel
- Enamelled
- Reading Culture (Monastic)
- Reading Culture (Devotional)
- Ireland
- Cast Bronze
- …
- bronze (metal)
- enamels (visual works)
- archaeology
- religious objects
- Reading culture
- Middle Ages
- Bronze
- Archaeology
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Creation date
- 2019
- 2019
Temporal
- 801-900
- Early Medieval
- 0801/0900
Places
- Antrim, Ireland
Provenance
- This model was created using photogrammetry, captured using a DSLR camera and processed using Agisoft Metashape.; Mesh processing; Photogrammetry
Identifier
- share3d:1015
- share3d:1015
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- Share3D
- Ireland
Relations
- 'The Antrim Cross in the Hunt Museum' - Peter Harbison, North Munster Antiquarian Journal Vol 20,2
Year
- 2019
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-03-09T13:01:02.785Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-09-09T13:14:36.050Z