LOT 1960 Viking Decorated Spearhead
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9th century AD. A socketted spearhead with tapering round-section shank with small nail in situ; collar at neck and leaf-shaped blade with shallow midrib on both sides and notched shoulders; shank decorated with a series of shallow circumferential bands, the blade with four bands of chevrons on both faces. See Mägi-Lôugas, M., 'On the relations between the countries around the Baltic as indicated by the background of Viking Age spearhead ornament' in Fornvännen 88, (1993), pp.211-221, see fig.1, spear-heads from Viltina.193 grams, 26cm (10 1/4"). Property of a Sussex gentleman; before that from a UK private collection; acquired in Munich, Germany, in the 1990s. Most of the researchers dealing with silver-decorated spearheads have generally regarded such luxurious weapons as products of Scandinavia. Yet the opinion that some of them may have been manufactured locally in the eastern Baltic area or Finland has also been put forward. Certainly these weapons were used from Vikings and Baltic warriors from the 8th to 11th century AD. [No Reserve]
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