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Lot 196

A Rare Viking Sword Of Petersen Type L (Variant) And Wheeler Type VI
First Half Of The 10th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£4,000 - £5,000

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A Rare Viking Sword Of Petersen Type L (Variant) And Wheeler Type VI
First Half Of The 10th Century

In excavated condition, with broad tapering double-edged blade with wide finely pattern-welded shallow central fuller over nearly its entire length to the point on each side, hilt comprising downcurved rounded cross-piece retaining residual silver encrustation from the original decoration, flat tang sharply tapering beneath the pommel, and pommel of shallow 'cocked-hat' form
74.3 cm. blade, 86.7 cm. overall

Footnotes

For examples of pattern-welding see A.L. Lorange, Den Yugre Jernalders Sværd, 1889, pl. VI reproduced in Ian Peirce, Swords Of The Viking Age, 2002, pl. 1; and ibid, Lee A. Jones, Blade Construction and Pattern-Welding, pp. 145-151

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