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Viking Age Bronze Broad Axehead Pendant with Ring-and-Dot Decoration Viking Age Bronze Broad Axehead Pendant with Ring-and-Dot Decoration Viking Age Bronze Broad Axehead Pendant with Ring-and-Dot Decoration
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LOT 1693

Viking Age Bronze Broad Axehead Pendant with Ring-and-Dot Decoration

9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/4 in. (6 grams, 32 mm wide).

Formed as a miniature axehead with broad blade, spur to rear and three ring-and-dot motifs, flat socket.

Provenance

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.105(1).

CONDITION
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LOT 1693

Viking Age Bronze Broad Axehead Pendant with Ring-and-Dot Decoration

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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