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LOT 1727
Viking Period Bronze War-Flail Element
CIRCA 10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (77.4 grams, 48 mm).
Pear-shaped facetted body with D-shaped loop above. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Westminster collection, central London, UK.
Literature
See Nicolle, D., The Khazars, a Judeo-Turkish Empire on the Steppes, 7th-11th Centuries A.D., Oxford, p.34, for similar examples.
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