An iron axehead with inlaid silver and gold interlace decoration to both lateral faces, the upper face of the blade and the rear of the socket; slender body with scooped lower edge and curved blade, lateral spurs and rectangular panel to the butt; Wheeler's Type I.

PROVENANCE:
From a London W1, UK, collection; acquired on the German art market before 2000, supplied with a report by Anglo-Saxon and Viking specialist, S. Pollington.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Wheeler, R.E.M. London and the Vikings, London Museum Catalogues: No 1, London, 1927.