This is an informal set of metadata for a 3D model produced via the MicroPasts crowdsourcing web platform (http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org).
This object is a 'socketed axe' of Late Bronze or Early Iron Age date, found on the Isle of Wight at Arreton Down. Its blade had been wedged into the socket, a feature present in a number of axes found throughout Europe. This has been interpreted as either a way of keeping the broken axe parts together before being recycled, or a structured, ritual act which fragmented and transformed the object. The axe will be cleaned and the blade removed in the near future, however this model will provide us with a permanent 3 dimensional record of its condition when found.
We have created three models: a textured mesh with 100k faces, another with 300k faces, and the original dense point cloud. The raw images, image masks and exported information about camera position and alignment markers are also available.
License: CC-BY
Access and Photography: Andy Bevan; Chiara Bonacchi; Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert; Dan Pett; Neil Wilkin
Model-build: Hugh Fiske
Photo-masks: Michael George Adams; Denis Antoine; Arjuna Cecchetti; Maria Christakou; Toma Claudiu; Gordana Dimovska; Jane Fellows; Teresa Gilmore; Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert; Steffi Kremer; Heidi Lund; Joellen McGann; Holly Peterson; Tai Pinchevsky; Adam Rabinowitz; Ernst Schnell.
This model was created in PhotoScan Pro 1.1.6
The photographs used in this model were taken on a tripod, but were not colour-balanced before modelling.