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Late Bronze Age, Yetholm Shield, HCA 457

This circular shield (Diam. 63.8cm) is made from a blank of thin sheet-bronze, evenly beaten to a thickness of 0.5mm and with a total weight of 1484g. It is skilfully and symmetrically decorated with 11 concentric repoussé ribs and 11 rows of low hemispherical bosses. A large, hollow central boss is stepped and of a rounded conical shape. Two neat circular perforations, replacing bosses in one row…

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Creator

  • The Hunt Museum

Subject

  • Battle shield
  • shield components
  • votive offering
  • riverine deposition
  • wetlands
  • deposition
  • Archaeological artifact
  • shields (armor)
  • archaeological objects

Type of item

  • 3D

Creator

  • The Hunt Museum

Subject

  • Battle shield
  • shield components
  • votive offering
  • riverine deposition
  • wetlands
  • deposition
  • Archaeological artifact
  • shields (armor)
  • archaeological objects

Type of item

  • 3D

Providing institution

  • The Hunt Museum

Aggregator

  • CARARE

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

User generated content

  • false

Rights

  • © Hunt Museum 2020

Creation date

  • 2018
  • 2018

Temporal

  • Late Bronze Age
  • Bronze Age

Places

  • Halliford Upper, Walton-on-Thames

Provenance

  • This model was created by Limerick 3D. Thanks to support from The Heritage Council, European Year of Cultural Heritage and Limerick City and County Council training of volunteers was facilitated by Digital Heritage Age and the programme is ongoing at The Hunt Museum. the project focuses on exploring the Museum Collections through the use of photogrammetry and laser scanning to create 3D models.; Laser scanning; Photogrammetry

Identifier

  • share3d:182
  • share3d:182

Format

  • glTF

Language

  • eng
  • English

Is part of

  • Share3D

Relations

  • The Hunt Museum Essential Guide (2002)

Year

  • 2018

Providing country

  • Europe

Collection name

  • 181_Share3D_181

Timestamp created

  • 2020-03-20T15:36:47.615Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2023-08-01T08:39:45.538Z