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LOT 1025
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
VIKING AGE IRON SOCKETTED SPEARHEAD
11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
15 3/8 in. (255 grams, 39 cm).
11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
15 3/8 in. (255 grams, 39 cm).
Type N leaf-shaped slender blade, with flattened transition area between blade and socket, continuing far up onto the blade.
PROVENANCE:
Ex private collection of Mr M.B., Mainz, Germany, since the 1980s.
Acquired from the above, 2004.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Hjardar, K. and Vike, V., Vikings at war, Oxford-Philadelphia, 2016, pp.175-180.
FOOTNOTES:
The spearheads of type N were a minor group in the Viking spearheads, found throughout the whole of the 10th century A.D. They make up circa 10% of the Viking Age spears.
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