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Viking weapon panoply 2, British Museum 2009
Large Axe: see separate photo for details. Small Axe: Iron axe-head, with oval socket. 9thC 1856,0701.1422; Small Axe: Iron axe-head, with oval socket. 9thC. 1856,0701.1422. Short broad spear: Iron spear-head with a long angular blade. The socket is inlaid with silver wires and incised with triple chevrons and scroll designs.11thC. 1856,0701.1452; Long, thin spear: Spear-head; iron; of slender lozenge-shaped section; the socket inlaid with copper and silver.
Graham-Campbell 1980
Long slender iron spear-head of Petersen's Type K with silver and copper encrusted socket; the blade is of lozenge-shaped cross-section with an angular shoulder between socket and blade. There is a pair of holes for a single transverse rivet at the base of the socket. The entire length of the socket is encrusted with silver and copper wires, the criss-cross striations for which are particularly clear at the borders, both of which consist of a band of alternating silver and copper chevrons. Twisted pairs of silver and copper wires alternate with plain wires of both metals, to form transverse rows of herring-bone pattern between the borders. 9thC(late)-10thC. 1893,0715.2; Sword: Peterson S, Sword with double-edged, pattern-welded and fullered iron blade. The pommel is five-lobed, with lobes divided by twisted silver and copper wires hammered into grooves; the guards are straight with convex sides and rounded ends; pommel and guards with the remains of silver encrustration and animal interlace inlaid in plain copper and copper and silver wires twisted together. Grip tightly wound with plain silver wire, with an oval ring of plaited silver wire at the top and base of the grip. 10thC. 1887,0209.1
Viking weapon panoply 2, British Museum 2009
Large Axe: see separate photo for details. Small Axe: Iron axe-head, with oval socket. 9thC 1856,0701.1422; Small Axe: Iron axe-head, with oval socket. 9thC. 1856,0701.1422. Short broad spear: Iron spear-head with a long angular blade. The socket is inlaid with silver wires and incised with triple chevrons and scroll designs.11thC. 1856,0701.1452; Long, thin spear: Spear-head; iron; of slender lozenge-shaped section; the socket inlaid with copper and silver.
Graham-Campbell 1980
Long slender iron spear-head of Petersen's Type K with silver and copper encrusted socket; the blade is of lozenge-shaped cross-section with an angular shoulder between socket and blade. There is a pair of holes for a single transverse rivet at the base of the socket. The entire length of the socket is encrusted with silver and copper wires, the criss-cross striations for which are particularly clear at the borders, both of which consist of a band of alternating silver and copper chevrons. Twisted pairs of silver and copper wires alternate with plain wires of both metals, to form transverse rows of herring-bone pattern between the borders. 9thC(late)-10thC. 1893,0715.2; Sword: Peterson S, Sword with double-edged, pattern-welded and fullered iron blade. The pommel is five-lobed, with lobes divided by twisted silver and copper wires hammered into grooves; the guards are straight with convex sides and rounded ends; pommel and guards with the remains of silver encrustration and animal interlace inlaid in plain copper and copper and silver wires twisted together. Grip tightly wound with plain silver wire, with an oval ring of plaited silver wire at the top and base of the grip. 10thC. 1887,0209.1