VIKING IRON CROSS-POTENT INLAID SWORD Circa 11th century AD. An iron hand-forged sword with Type X pommel and lenticular square-section crossguard; the blade gently tapering with shallow fuller, the piled construction visible in the core and three inlaid brass crosses potent below the hilt. Iron, 1.2 kg, 97 cm. Fine condition, conserved and stabilised. Provenance ex Gorny & Mosch Literature cf. Peirce, I. Swords of the Viking Age, p.132 sword from Vammala, Finland.
VIKING IRON CROSS-POTENT INLAID SWORD Circa 11th century AD. An iron hand-forged sword with Type X pommel and lenticular square-section crossguard; the blade gently tapering with shallow fuller, the piled construction visible in the core and three inlaid brass crosses potent below the hilt. Iron, 1.2 kg, 97 cm. Fine condition, conserved and stabilised. Provenance ex Gorny & Mosch Literature cf. Peirce, I. Swords of the Viking Age, p.132 sword from Vammala, Finland.
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