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PBR, Game-Ready, Low-Poly, hand-painted, Medieval Treadwheel Crane

2048 x 2048, OpenGL, Dilated + Transparent background.

During the High Middle Ages, the treadwheel crane was reintroduced on a large scale after the technology had fallen into disuse in western Europe with the demise of the Western Roman Empire.[3] The earliest reference to a treadwheel (magna rota) reappears in archival literature in France about 1225,[4] followed by an illuminated depiction in a manuscript of probably also French origin dating to 1240.[5] In navigation, the earliest uses of harbour cranes are documented for Utrecht in 1244, Antwerp in 1263, Brugge in 1288 and Hamburg in 1291,[6] while in England the treadwheel is not recorded before 1331.[7]