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Bronze Bell
A ninth-century bronze bell that is four-sided and rounded at the edges. It is splayed at the mouth and tapers towards the crown. The handle is not original and the clapper is missing. The bell was found in Co. Meath. Handbells were an important part of the early Christian Church. Handbells were often associated with individuals and were often preserved as relics of certain saints. Museum object n…
Creator
- Hunt Museum, as part of the Art of Reading in the Middle Ages project
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Monastic Bells
- Medieval Reading Culture
- Reading Culture (Monastic)
- Monastery
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- bells (idiophones)
- musical instruments
- Middle Ages
- Monastery
- Musical instrument
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- Hunt Museum, as part of the Art of Reading in the Middle Ages project
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- Monastic Bells
- Medieval Reading Culture
- Reading Culture (Monastic)
- Monastery
- Middle Ages
- Reading culture (medieval)
- bells (idiophones)
- musical instruments
- Middle Ages
- Monastery
- Musical instrument
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
- 2021
- 2021
Temporal
- 800-899
- Early Medieval
- 0800/0899
Places
- Co. Meath, Ireland
Provenance
- Models are created using Artec's EVA 3D laser scanner and software. They are then processed using Netfabb and Blender. ; Laser scanning; Mesh cleaning; Mesh processing
Identifier
- share3d:1088
- share3d:1088
Format
- glTF
Is part of
- Share3D
- Ireland
Relations
- https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/6207ddec-7bf9-3bd3-b942-620dd71ef9ba/?s%3DHCM+619&pos=1
Year
- 2021
Providing country
- Ireland
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-06-24T17:03:24.011Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-09-11T14:48:51.577Z