Detail 3D model of a back panel of the Ruthwell Cross, Ruthwell, UK - 0.25mm resolution - 3D model generated through Laser Triangulation 3D Scanning, triangulated surface mesh at maximum resolution (5 millions of triangles) - Geometry only. 3D digitization by Visual Computing Lab, ISTI-CNR - Collaboration between ISTI-CNR and the Visionary Cross Project. - Models created for the study of the runic text, didactic purposes, and the virtual presentation of the Cross to general public. The Ruthwell Cross is a 17 foot high stone cross erected in the eighth century at a former military site (later probably a monastery) in Dumfriesshire. The cross was pulled down and broken in the seventeenth century and partially reconstructed in the nineteenth. It is now located in a small apse on the north side of the Ruthwell church. The cross is perhaps best known to Anglo-Saxonists for a runic inscription that may be the oldest known record of an Anglo-Saxon vernacular poem.

Metadata	Information
Source	ISTI-CNR
Contacts	Roberto ScopignoResearch DirectorISTI-CNR 1Via G. MoruzziPisa56124ITALY roberto.scopigno@isti.cnr.itRoberto Scopigno, head of the Visual computing Lab, ISTI-CNR
Copyright Credit Line	All rights reserved: ISTI-CNR & Visionary Cross Project & Historic Scotland
Europeana Rights	Paid access_no re_use
Start Date	701
End Date	800
Period Name	8th Century A.D.
Materials	Stone
Heritage Asset Type	Monumental Cross