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LOT 0310
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Five-Lobed Sword Pommel
LATE 10TH-EARLY 11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (67 grams, 54 mm).
Of Petersen's Type S (Wheeler Type III) with five graduated lobes; the lower face a swept arc; pierced through the tallest lobe to accept the tang of the sword's blade. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Market Rasen, Lincolnshire Wolds, UK, 1970s.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
See Peirce, I., Swords of the Viking Age, Woodbridge, 2002, p.104-5.
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LOT 0310
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Five-Lobed Sword Pommel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
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2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
With broad heater-shaped head and barbs to the rear, square shoulder and narrow tang. 41.6 grams, 13.5 cm
Property of the vendor's grandfather, thence by family descent, circa 1985. From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman.
The arrowhead resembles a stylised bird's head, according to classification by Khorasani. This was a type of decorative arrowheads, belonging to the typology of barbed arrowheads.
