9TH CENTURY
Details
A Fine Sword Of Viking Type
9th Century
Wheeler, Type IV, in excavated condition, with broad, straight double-edged pattern-welded blade with a wide shallow fuller on each face, and short thick straight cross with silver studs set above and below the rounded tips, the pommel and cross inlaid with close set vertical silver lines, one face of the blade cleaned
30¾in. (78.1cm.) blade
See M. Wheeler, London and the Vikings, London Museum, 1927, pp. 32, 34-5; H. Seitz, Blankwaffen, I, 1965, pp. 100-106
9th Century
Wheeler, Type IV, in excavated condition, with broad, straight double-edged pattern-welded blade with a wide shallow fuller on each face, and short thick straight cross with silver studs set above and below the rounded tips, the pommel and cross inlaid with close set vertical silver lines, one face of the blade cleaned
30¾in. (78.1cm.) blade
See M. Wheeler, London and the Vikings, London Museum, 1927, pp. 32, 34-5; H. Seitz, Blankwaffen, I, 1965, pp. 100-106
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., 1 November 1983, Lot 100