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Lot 132

A Rare Migration Period Iron Helmet (Spangenhelm), And Sword-Blade
7th/8th Century

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Migration Period Iron Helmet (Spangenhelm), And Sword-Blade
7th/8th Century

In excavated condition, the helmet formed of four curved triangular plates joined together on the outside by four riveted straps each with medial ridge and secured around the brim by a wide band; the tapering double-edged blade slightly hollowed over its entire length forming a shallow medial ridge along both sides and retaining its slender integral tang, now fitted with a reproduction wooden hilt (2)
17 cm. high and 65.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

See Bruno Thomas and Ortwin Gamber, Katalog Der Leitrüstkammer, I. Tell ..., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, 1976, pp. 34-36. The items in Vienna have been attributed to the Alans, a group of Sarmatians, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millenium A.D. See Bernard S. Bachrach, A history of the Alans in the West: from their first appearance in the sources of classical antiquity through the early Middle Ages, 1973

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