Burin (NHMW-PRAE-44.454)

3D Model

3D scan of a 86 mm long simple dihedral burin. The artefact is made of gray-brown semi-translucent chert. It surfaced in layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria and constitutes one of the numerous lithic artefacts found in the same layer as the Venus of Willendorf.

This object was digitized for the go!digital 3.0 project bITEM (Beyond the Item - Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond).

Object: Dihedral burin

Inventory number: NHMW-PRAE-44.454

Collection: NHMW, Prehistory Department, Stone Age Coll. (curator: Caroline Posch)

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Scanned and edited by A. Haider, V. Winkler and N. Brodtmann (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.