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Aerial LiDAR background as Digital Surface Model, 3D is from student project efforts with terrestrial LiDAR and Drone SfM mapping.
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Busycon sinistrum (Lightning whelk)
The Busycon whelk has a left-handed or sinistral shell. It is a species that preys on smaller bivalves and are found in the sandy or muddy areas along shallow embayments. This species was also important to Native Americans, with the archaeological record showing how left-handed lightening whelks offered an important food resource, with their shells made into tools, ornaments, and used as a container for ceremonial drink.
Island Movement
Fort Matanzas is located on Rattlesnake Island. Time and tide are changing this coastline. In 1740, the inlet was a half-mile closer to the fort than it is now. The fort was built on less than two acres of dry ground with water all around it and a deep channel just in front of the gundeck. Today, Rattlesnake Island is more than two hundred acres.
Child Burial and Monument
This burial is located at the Ederington Family Cemetery at the Chinsegut Hill National Register of Historic Places site (8He673) in Brooksville, Florida. This two-year-old child has a headstone with a sleeping lamb adornment (Lamb of God) that is often seen with child and infant burials. Little Edgar’s burial is a marble die set in a stone base with a marble footer. The stone is highly discolored and has biogrowth and erosion of inscriptions and adornment areas. There are no cracks or breaks noted above ground on the stone, however a previous survey shows the stone flat on the ground and the stone is cracked and broken along the base. The Inscription on the stone is highlighted in the annotated tour of the 3D model.
19th Century Grave
The Chinsegut Hill Manor House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located near the City of Brooksville, Florida. The house dates to 1847, when Colonel Byrd Pearson claimed the land and surrounding acres. Francis H. Ederington would purchase the property and build the manor house we see today. The property would trade hands, with the middle 20th century owners, Raymond and Margaret Robins, bringing new notoriety to the house, entertaining famous dignitaries and guests from around the world at Chinsegut.
Six headstones commemorate pioneer burials for the Ederington family at the cemetery, with death dates from 1858-1880. The stones are eroded and damaged and lichen and vegetation growth inhibit easily seeing engraved surfaces. Using 3D photogrammetry high-resolution capture and processing, new detail has emerged. This stone, dating to 1866, is marking the burial of founder Francis Higgins Ederington. Design motifs include a weeping willow design and bible passage.
Cuneiform Clay Tablet
Cuneiform on clay tablet.
Cuneiform is the world’s oldest known written language developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC. The inscriptions were made with reed styluses to impress some 900 different logographic, syllabic and taxographic signs into moist clay tablets.
The text dates from the third dynasty of Ur (Ur III, c. 2100-2000 BC). The original text that was impressed on the tablet has, for the most part, been rendered illegible by a seal that was stamped over the surface.
The seal appears to have belonged to Shara-bazige, a scribe who was employed by Ur-Lisi, governor of Umma, a city-state in southern Mesopotamia and a key center during the Ur III period. This particular seal has been identified on several other Ur III texts.
20th Century Mahogany Dining Room Chair
This mahogany dining chair is from the Chinsegut Manor House, a National Register of Historic Places site in Hernando County Florida. The home dates to 1847 but has furnishings from multiple periods of use and occupations. This chair is dated to c. 1900-1910. Detail includes a wreath application design element on the chair back and the piece has been re-upholstered numerous times. Part of a 3D documentation of the house, grounds and furnishings by the Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections in the USF LIbraries in collaboration with the Tampa Bay History Center. This piece was documented using structured light laser scanning.
Arts & Crafts Oak Rocking Chair
This quarter sawn oak rocking chair is from the Chinsegut Manor House, a National Register of Historic Places site in Hernando County Florida. The home dates to 1847 but has furnishings from multiple periods of use and occupations. This mission style rocker is dated to c. 1900-1920. Documented with structured light laser scanning.
Infant Burial Headstone
The Chinsegut Hill Manor House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located near the City of Brooksville, Florida. The house dates to 1847, when Colonel Byrd Pearson claimed the land and surrounding acres. Francis H. Ederington would purchase the property and build the manor house we see today. The property would trade hands, with the middle 20th century owners, Raymond and Margaret Robins, bringing new notoriety to the house, entertaining famous dignitaries and guests from around the world at Chinsegut.
Six headstones commemorate pioneer burials for the Ederington family at the Ederington Cemetery, with death dates from 1858-1880. This stone is for one-month-old infant, Joseph. Symbolism of note on this headstone is the carved broken rose bud- representing the flower that did not bloom iand a life cut short.