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LOT 1461
Anglo-Saxon 'Thames' Iron Scramasax Knife
5TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (22 grams, 10 cm).
A broken-backed, singled-edged knife blade with tang. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found near Teddington on the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Literature
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, fig. 79(3).
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