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Lot 398

A Very Rare Anglo-Saxon Sword Blade
6th/7th Century

28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Anglo-Saxon Sword Blade
6th/7th Century

In excavated condition, finely pattern-welded, double-edged and with blunt point and tapering tang: in a display case (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Found at Sittingbourne together with a silver penny of King Aethelstan
Christie's London, Antiquities, 19 December 1979, lot 180

The pattern-welding is very similar to that on the Sutton Hoo sword in the British Museum. See R. Bruce-Mitford, The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Volume 2. Arms, Armour and Regalia, London, 1978, pp. 273-309, fig. 211

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