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LOT 0460

Viking Silver and Gold Inlaid Axehead

11TH CENTURY AD

8 1/2" (846 grams, 21.5cm).

An iron axehead with inlaid silver and gold interlace decoration to both lateral faces, the upper face of the blade and the rear of the socket; slender body with scooped lower edge and curved blade, lateral spurs and rectangular panel to the butt; Wheeler's Type I.

Provenance

From a London W1, UK, collection; acquired on the German art market before 2000, supplied with a report by Anglo-Saxon and Viking specialist, S. Pollington.

Literature

Cf. Wheeler, R.E.M. London and the Vikings, London Museum Catalogues: No 1, London, 1927.

CONDITION

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LOT 0460

Viking Silver and Gold Inlaid Axehead

Sold for (Inc. bp): £60,000

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