Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.

One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stonehenge is regarded as a British cultural icon. It has been a legally protected Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1882 when legislation to protect historic monuments was first successfully introduced in Britain. The site and its surroundings were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage; the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust

Stonehenge England - VR

This remaining piece was part of the Great Cloister, which was part of the Carthusian monastery that was founded outside the city of London by Sir Walter Manny. Manny also funded the plague burial site which is now Charterhouse Square. The Norfolk Cloister is a 'rare survival of a great Elizabethan garden gallery'. The roof was used for guests to promenade including by Queen Elizabeth I during her visit to the Charterhouse.

During the period of Sutton's Hospital the cloister was used by the schoolboys for football, its narrow dimensions leading to the invention of the offside rule.

Date: 1417 (the Great Cloister) & 1571 (roof and inner wall)

Visit the Charterhouse by booking an excellent tour here: https://thecharterhouse.digitickets.co.uk/tickets

Access and historical information for this model were very kindly supplied by Kayden Rodger, Visitor Host at the Charterhouse.

http://www.thecharterhouse.org/

1622 photos taken in June 2019 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Agisoft Metashape.

The Charterhouse Norfolk Cloister

The Valley of the Kings is a valley west of modern Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt where, for nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were excavated for the pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. This valley held the burial for some of the most well-known pharaohs in history, including Thutmose III, Ramesses II (The Great), and Tutankhamun.  -Nate Loper

Valley of the Kings Tombs – Luxor, Egypt

Allée couverte du Bois-Couturier, a megalithic tomb located in Guiry-en-Vexin, France was discovered in 1915 by an agricultural worker. This ancient tomb is buried in the hillside overlooking the Aubette valley at an altitude of 132 meters. Facing south/ southeast, the burial chamber measures 7 meters long and 2 meters wide. The antechamber is short and wide measuring 1 meter by 1.85 meters. The walls, constructed of horizontal layers of limestone plates, measure 1.30 meters high. The arrangement of the limestone slabs of the roof have been disturbed, and their current position is a result of restoration.

This model was created from FARO Focus S70 scan data and processed in Reality Capture software. 

For more information see: 
COSTA From SOULIER Ph. GUY H. 1995 - Dolmens et menhirs du Val-d'Oise, Notices d'archéologie du Val-d'Oise n°4, Service départemental d'archéologie du Val-d'Oise, p. 26-27

Allée couverte du Bois-Couturier Megalithic Tomb

Coffin of the Pharaoh Akenaten in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

This coffin was recovered from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in what has been designated Tomb KV55.  The tomb was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while working for the wealthy American Theodore M. Davis.  The tomb has been controversial since it's discovery, originally being designated the burial of Queen Tiye.  It has now been shown through DNA analysis that the remains found in the tomb are those of Akenaten himself.  The DNA has further demonstrated that Akhenaten was the father of Tutankhamen (King Tut).
The face of the coffin and the name in the cartouche have been deliberately removed in an attempt to condemn the “heretic” pharaoh in the afterlife and erase his memory.

Information on the tomb can be found [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV55).  A scan of another artifact from the tomb can be seen [here](https://skfb.ly/6PoHS).

Created using 138 photographs (Canon EOS Rebel T5i) using Metashape 1.3.

Coffin of Akhenaten, Tomb KV55

Cat goddess, Bastet, Egypt, Replica (h: ca.14 cm), Bronze Louvre (Paris). Private collection of bronzes about 1911. 
Bastet is the daughter of the sun god Re, depicted in Egyptian mythology as a cat goddess.
The cat was worshipped all over Egypt and was considered to be holy. Grain was very precious in ancient Egypt. Cats in particular offered effective protection from the vast numbers of mice and rats. They took the position of a house idol. The killing of a cat was sometimes a capital crime worthy of death.
"When a cat dies in a house, all the inhabitants of the house shave off their eyebrows [...]. The dead cats are taken to the town of Bubastis, embalmed and buried in sacred burial chambers. Herodotus (490/480 - 430/420 B.C.E.)

Bastet, Cat goddess, Egypt

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn, near Finstown, Mainland, Orkney, is a late Neolithic (c.3200-2300 BC) 'Maes Howe'-type tomb.  The tomb is located on the side of the hill and the floor is cut into sandstone bedrock.  The chambers are constructed from fine dry-stone walling with corbelled roofs.  The mound measures c.55 feet in diameter and the main chamber is 8 feet 6 inches tall.

The tomb was partly excavated by James Cursiter in 1888 and more extensively investigated by Malcolm M. Charleston in 1901.  The tomb contained at least 8 burials and the skulls of 24 dogs.  The latter may have been a totemic animal, but they were probably deposited in the Bronze Age rather than the Neolithic.  The tomb sites above the Neolithic settlement site of Stonehall, which was excavated by Prof Colin Richards in the 1990s. 

This site is managed by Historic Environment Scotland and is open to the public.  For more information see CANMORE: http://canmore.org.uk/site/2059

Modelled using 1200 photos taken with a Canon 70d.

Cuween Hill Chambered Tomb, Orkney

A LiDAR landscape of the key archaeological features around Stonehenge including Stonehenge itself, The Avenue, the Cursus and numerous barrow burial mounds. The 1 metre LiDAR is only partial at Stonehenge with many of the sites to the west not included in the current opendata coverage. This is a digital terrain model version which represents the bare ground surface only so prominent buildings, trees and even the stones of the Stonehenge circles are stripped off in this case. 

Created using 1 metre DTM LiDAR opendata provided by the Environment Agency. Built in QGIS using the QGIS2threeJS plugin.

Thanks to Mike Gill of the Avon Valley Archaeological Society for the python code which converts QGIS models into a format compatible with Sketchfab.

Best viewed full screen and in HD (see options at bottom of model view). Feel free to share on various media, download, or embed on your website using the embed code.

Stonehenge LiDAR Archaeology Landscape

Meet Ava: this is the 4,000 year old skull of a Bronze Age woman. 
Ava was buried in a Bronze Age rock-cut stone lined pit in the early Bronze Age. Her burial was discovered in 1987 during road improvement works and  was excavated by archaeologists from the Highland Council. 30 years later a research project has been set up to discover more about her life, and her subsequent death. For more information visit the Achavanich Beaker Burial Project https://achavanichbeakerburial.wordpress.com/

Ava's Skull

Red ochre grave in Ligga, Jokkmokk municipality, Norrbotten, Sweden. Due to the ongoing erosion in the area Norrbottens museum began a rescue survey of the stone setting in 2022.  The 3D-model shows the stone setting after the turf has been removed. 

In Norrbotten the burial tradition including stone settings filled with red ochre coloured sand can be dated to Late Mesolithic times. This tradition seems to have developed locally among people living around the Bothnian Bay.

Red ochre grave

Half a skull from the Neolithic Necropolis of Escoural Cave, one of the most iconic monuments of the of Montemor-o-Novo’s region, in Portugal, being widely recognized for the presence of Paleolithic rock art (paintings and engravings). The burials in this necropolis were covered by a mantle of calcite that can still be seen in part of this skull. The burials were accompanied by votive ceramics pieces.

This piece is currently on display at the Museum of S. Domingos, in Montemor-o-Novo.

Photos from Canon 5D Mk IV. Completely processed (aligned, scaled, meshed, cleaned, simplified, unwrapped, textured,) in Reality Capture.

Escoural Cave Skull, Portugal

3D model of the Rinnböck Chapel at the foot of the Kirchberg at the Simmering Cemetery in Vienna. The neo-Gothic burial chapel of the Rinnböck family was built in 1869. At the portal of the octagonal building is an angel in a tympanum with a scroll bearing the words: Resting place of the Rinnböck family.

Rinnböck-Kapelle

St. Martin's Chapel is a former late Gothic charnel house to the south of Perchtoldsdorf church. The chapel, named in 1455, was rebuilt in 1512 by Master Georg from Vienna and is connected to the castle by a walkway. Until the 16th century, the remains of local residents buried in the small burial ground next to the church were kept here. The memorial to the victims of the two world wars has been housed here since 1953.

Martinskapelle

Das Grutenhäuschen ist ein teilrekonstruierter römischer Grabtempel, der sich in einem Weinberghang nahe der Gemeinde Igel in Rheinland-Pfalz an der Mosel befindet. Es wurde auf den Resten der ursprünglichen Grabkammer 1962 vom Rheinischen Landesmuseum Trier restauriert. 2001 wurden die oberen und vorderen Teile des ursprünglichen Tempels rekonstruiert. 
Weitere Informationen in der [Kulturdatenbank der Region Trier](https://kulturdb.de/einObjekt.php?id=1554)

The Grutenhäuschen is a partially reconstructed Roman burial temple located on a vineyard slope near the community of Igel in Rhineland-Palatinate on the Moselle River. It was restored on the remains of the original burial chamber in 1962 by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. In 2001, the upper and front parts of the original temple were reconstructed. 
Further information in the [cultural database of the Trier region](https://kulturdb.de/einObjekt.php?id=1554)

Roman burial temple "Grutenhäuschen"

3D Scan of an Antenna dagger with a sheath and a decorated handle from the Hallstatt cemetery (circa 600–400 BC) found in grave Nr.116. This Iron Age cemetery and the salt mine are among the most important archaeological sites in Austria, more than 1500 burials have been found so far.

The dagger can be found in Hall 12 of the NHM Vienna.

This dagger was chosen for scanning via a [Facebook survey](https://www.facebook.com/Naturhistorisches.Museum.Wien).  To learn more about our [3D Museum](https://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/museum_online/3D) watch [this "Science Talk" from the NHMW](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7QbZDRs0E) by V. Winkler & A. Haider (in German).

**Object**: Antenna Dagger and Sheath

**Inventory number**: NHMW-PRAE-24.048

**Collection**: NHMW, Prehistory Dept., Hallstatt cemetery (contact: Georg Tiefengraber)

Find out more about the NHMW [here](http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/en).

Scanned & edited by Viola Winkler &  Anna Haider (NHMW)

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

Antenna Dagger and Sheath (NHMW-PRAE-24.048)

This Pictish Stone is dispayed in the Aberdeen University Library, Aberdeen, Scotland. This stone was uncovered in the 1970s on a narrow spit of land between the rivers Isla and Deveron, close to where another five carved stones have been found. The symbols on this one are particularly finely carved, being an eagle and a 'Pictish beast'. A small cairn of stones was also found, supporting the idea that this stone may have marked the burial of a powerful person in the 6th or 7th
centuries AD.

Tillytarmont 4 Pictish stone (Sometimes known as Tillytarmont 5) Found in 1972, this stone (1.5m by 1.3m)
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 17836
ABDUA:39613

Tillytarmont 4 Pictish Stone

The Indrica Catholic Church, located near the Daugava River , is the oldest extant wooden church in Latgale. Constructed between 1655–1658 and 1698 , it remains the oldest wooden structure in Latvia not rebuilt since the 17th century. This Baroque three-aisle hall-type log building features a polygonal apse and horizontal plank cladding. The facade is marked by a three-stage tower with a bell-shaped roof. Internally, a high degree of authenticity is preserved, including a rich wood-carved altar from the Stelmužė school and a crypt housing the Counts Plater family burials. The ensemble includes a fieldstone masonry fence and a unique three-stage bell tower. Despite a 1989 fire, the structure is in satisfactory condition following roof reconstruction. Current maintenance needs include addressing paint delamination and cleaning gutters from larch needle accumulation.

The Indrica Catholic Church

Georeferenced Orthomosaic Map and Model. The most important prehistoric site of the East Midlands, Arbor Low is a Neolithic henge monument atmospherically set amid high moorland. Within an earthen bank and ditch, a circle of some 50 white limestone slabs, all now fallen, surrounds a central stone ‘cove’ – a feature found only in major sacred sites. Nearby is enigmatic Gib Hill, a large burial mound.

Created in RealityScan by Epic Games from 814 images in 00h:03m:54s.

License: CC BY 4.0. Model created by Shiro Morturn - Sudbury Digital Imaging for documentation and educational purposes.

Sudbury Digital Imaging is working with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust on the Trent Valley Past and Present project, helping to connect communities with their heritage. (https://www.thetrentvalley.org.uk/projects/tvpp/)

Contour Map: ![](https://i.postimg.cc/vH3zHHzG/Arbor-Low-DSM-Contours-2026-03-19.jpg)

Scalerfield Image: ![](https://i.postimg.cc/qRscfkq3/Arbor-Low-Gibb-Hill-Drone-Mapping-EDL-Shader-Scalerfield.jpg)

Arbor Low and Gibb Hill Map Peak District

**St. Emmeram** by *Rolf Nida-Rümelin*

The statue of **St. Emmeram** by *Rolf Nida-Rümelin* has stood at the St. Emmeram Bridge in Oberföhring since 1979. The bronze statue stands approximately on the spot where, according to legend, the saint's body was to be floated to Regensburg for his final burial in the 7th century. The statue weighs over 300 kg, is 2.50 m high, and is signed.

https://www.muenchenwiki.de/wiki/Emmeramsstatue

**low poly vesrion, 2k textures**

St. Emmeram (Munich)

A sacrificial altar dating to the 3rd–4th centuries AD was discovered during excavations of the necropolis associated with the Belinskoe hillfort. In close proximity to the altar, a burial chamber with a short dromos was recorded, along with remnants of a ritual commemoration feast (trishna) and associated 4th‑century AD artefacts.

Altar. After excavations are finished

Between 1881 and 1893 a substantial boat burial site from the late Germanic Iron Age was discovered in the cemetery at Vendel Church in Uppland, Sweden. The finds were so extraordinary that the location was used to name the period between 550 and 750 CE – Now known as the [Vendel Period](https://tinyurl.com/2422475d). 

While many of the burials at Vendel had already been plundered in antiquity, the graves of Vendel I, XII and XIV had remained undisturbed.
The helmets found in these graves were manufactured in Scandinavia and represent an exceptional evidence of the late Germanic Iron Age in Northern Europe, both in terms of their uniqueness, completeness and quality.

[More about the Vendel I Helmet in our Online Collections](https://tinyurl.com/n43vmcuy)

[The Vendel I Helmet at Dynamic Collections](https://tinyurl.com/3ffknh49)

Full dataset coming soon at Zenodo

The Vendel I Helmet

Between 1881 and 1893 a substantial boat burial site from the late Germanic Iron Age was discovered in the cemetery at Vendel Church in Uppland, Sweden. The finds were so extraordinary that the location was used to name the period between 550 and 750 CE – Now known as the [Vendel Period](https://tinyurl.com/2422475d). 

While many of the burials at Vendel had already been plundered in antiquity, the graves of Vendel I, XII and XIV had remained undisturbed.
The helmets found in these graves were manufactured in Scandinavia and represent an exceptional evidence of the late Germanic Iron Age in Northern Europe, both in terms of their uniqueness, completeness and quality.

[More about the Vendel XII Helmet in our Online Collections](https://tinyurl.com/mryd39xh)

[The Vendel XII Helmet at Dynamic Collections](https://tinyurl.com/4j2c5rp2)

[Full dataset at Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/19069186)

The Vendel XII Helmet

Between 1881 and 1893 a substantial boat burial site from the late Germanic Iron Age was discovered in the cemetery at Vendel Church in Uppland, Sweden. The finds were so extraordinary that the location was used to name the period between 550 and 750 CE – Now known as the [Vendel Period](https://tinyurl.com/2422475d). 

While many of the burials at Vendel had already been plundered in antiquity, the graves of Vendel I, XII and XIV had remained undisturbed.
The helmets found in these graves were manufactured in Scandinavia and represent an exceptional evidence of the late Germanic Iron Age in Northern Europe, both in terms of their uniqueness, completeness and quality.

[More about the Vendel XIV Helmet in our Online Collections](https://tinyurl.com/4mcp2ce3)

[The Vendel XIV Helmet at Dynamic Collections](https://tinyurl.com/3hj77wbn)

Full dataset coming soon at Zenodo

The Vendel XIV Helmet

📍 [The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM](https://scaniver.se/L35.08501,-106.62500)

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