Plunging Blade (NHMW-PRAE-44.571)

3D Model

3D scan of a plunging blade made from red-brown radiolarite. The item originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria. It constitutes one of the numerous artefacts found in the same site 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: Plunging blade

Inventory number: NHMW-PRAE-44.571

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

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

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