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LOT 1351

Sold for (Inc. bp): £156

VIKING AGE BRONZE KNIFE HANDLE
10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (58 grams, 10.3 cm).

With tubular bronze handle and low-relief interlaced geometric designs. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.XII, item 11.

FOOTNOTES:
Ornamented bronze knife handles became an integral part of medieval culture also in Finno-Ugric lands. The blades of the knives were in iron, with bronze handles, and had an oval cross-section slightly expanding upwards. In a certain number of female burials, knives were found in sheaths with a bronze lamellar lining, decorated with complex floral ornamentation.

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