Viking Danish Iron Broad Axehead
Circa 9th-11th century A.D.. Of asymmetrical profile with reinforced curved cutting edge, triangular-section socket with flanking spurs to upper and lower edges. Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.14(5); Hjardar K. and Vike, V., Vikings at War, Oxford, 2016, p.162, for a similar specimen from Troms, dated 1000-1050 A.D. 370 grams, 18.5 cm (7 1/4 in.).

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.