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A Fine Viking Sword Of Petersen Type H And Wheeler Type II9th Century
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27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£20,000 - £30,000
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A Fine Viking Sword Of Petersen Type H And Wheeler Type II
9th Century
9th Century
In excavated condition, with broad tapering double-edged blade with wide very finely pattern-welded shallow central fuller over its entire length on each side, hilt comprising thick oviodal cross-piece and two-piece 'cocked-hat' pommel inlaid overall with close-set vertical brass lines (some losses), the pommel with the remains of its medial strand of twisted silver wire
82.5 cm. blade, 97.2 cm. overall
82.5 cm. blade, 97.2 cm. overall
Footnotes
Cf. a sword with a similar blade in Bergen Museum, Norway (inv. no. 883)
For examples of pattern-welding see A.L. Lorange, Den Yngre Jernalders Sværd, 1889, pl. VI reproduced in Ian Peirce, Swords Of The Viking Age, 2002, pl. I; and ibid, Lee A. Jones, Blade Construction and Pattern-Welding, pp. 145-151
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