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Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
9 5/8 in. (215 grams, 24.4 cm).
Lentoid-section broad leaf-shaped blade with thick neck and split socket; Swanton's Group D1. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found near Wetwang, East Yorkshire, UK.
Acquired circa 2005.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
PUBLISHED:
Exhibited at Harwich Museum, Harwich, Essex, UK, 14th March-9th June 2024; accompanied by a copy of a photograph of the artefact on display.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Swanton, M.J., Spearheads of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements, London, 1973, fig.18(c).
FOOTNOTES:
The chronological range of the type D1 extends over the entire Pagan period. With the group C1, of which Swanton believed this might simply be a long-socketted variant, the typology did not survive the 7th century A.D.
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