Viking Age Silver Decorated Axehead Pendant with Loop

8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/4 in. (1.9 grams, 33 mm).

A silver pendant composed of a free-running sub-triangular axehead pendant with flanges to the socket, one face displaying a dot-in-ring motif at the centre of concentric zigzagging triangles; slender ring with overlapping terminals forming coiled sleeves and spiralling plaques.

Provenance

Acquired before 2000.
From the collection of a European gentleman living in the UK.

Literature

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

CONDITION

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LOT 1234