Shark Bone Ring - 3D Model

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 in high estimation as curtain rings, for instance for bed closets. Physical object held at the National Museum of Iceland nr: 2005-36-0434. Found 11/7/2005, found & logged by IC https://sarpur.is/Adfang.aspx?AdfangID=1422758

Part of the Skriðuklaustur Monastery 1550 reconstruction.

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.

Funded by the EU Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020 through the “Connected Culture and Natural Heritage in a Northern Environment” (CINE) project.