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LOT 1255
Viking Period Silver Axe Pendant Group
8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (8.93 grams total, 32-34 mm).
A trio of silver axehead pendants of different forms, each suspended on a free-running silver ring with overlapping and coiled arms; two decorated with punched annulets to one face, a third with punched triangles populated with single pellets. [3]
Provenance
Acquired in the late 1990s-2000.
Property of an East London gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.104(5).
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