Null ‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN SCRAMASAX, PROBABLY 7TH/9TH CENTURY AND FOUR FURTHER IRO…
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‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN SCRAMASAX, PROBABLY 7TH/9TH CENTURY AND FOUR FURTHER IRON EDGED WEAPONS in excavated condition, the first with broad single-edged blade (tip missing), swelling at the forte to form an elliptical guard, and tapering tang; the second a portion of a blade, perhaps from a scramasax, of characteristic form; the third a very broad single-edged cleaver blade of Merovingian or early medieval type; the fourth from a barong and the fifth a portion of a hatchet (extensive losses), the first: 43.5 cm overall (5)

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‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN SCRAMASAX, PROBABLY 7TH/9TH CENTURY AND FOUR FURTHER IRON EDGED WEAPONS in excavated condition, the first with broad single-edged blade (tip missing), swelling at the forte to form an elliptical guard, and tapering tang; the second a portion of a blade, perhaps from a scramasax, of characteristic form; the third a very broad single-edged cleaver blade of Merovingian or early medieval type; the fourth from a barong and the fifth a portion of a hatchet (extensive losses), the first: 43.5 cm overall (5)

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