Viking Age Iron Beaded Axehead

9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

7 1/4 in. (681 grams, 18.5 cm).

With triangular-section narrow blade widening to a broad bevelled edge with square chin, socket with lateral flanges. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.

Literature

Cf. Thunmark-Nylén, L., Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands I.: Abbildungen der Graubfunde, Stockholm, 1992, pl.13, item 14.

CONDITION

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