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LOT 1576
Viking Iron Fighting Broad Axehead
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
5 7/8in. (280 grams, 15 cm).
With triangular spurs below the square socket, medium-broad flaring triangular-section blade extending to a curved edge, hammer extension to the rear. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex North American private collection, 1970s.
Literature
Cf. Williams, G., Pentz, P. & Wemhoff, M., Vikings Life and Legend, London, 2014, item 25, p.90, a similar axe from a male burial in Hellvi (Gotland, grave 222B).
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