Lot 1068
Seven small iron axes, two arrowheads, a fire steel, a spur, a bridle, a fragment of a bridle, Late Iron Age – High Middle Ages, 7th century B.C. – 12th century A.D.
Works of Art, Antiquities & Ancient Art | A109kua | Live auction | 1190 Lots
Description
1) Iron socketed axe with curved, tapering blade. 7th century B.C. - 1st century A.D. 2-7) Collection of six miniature axes and fine tools, respectively. Including: 2) Miniature cross pickaxe, Roman, 1st - 3rd century. Length 9 cm. 3) Small axe with trapezoidal blade and pointed, downward-drawn neck. Roman - medieval. 2nd century - 14th century. Length 8.5 cm. 4-6) Three axes with trapezoidal blade, in two examples drawn downward, and with a blunt, straight neck directly behind the shaft hole. Roman, 2nd - 5th century A.D. Length 5.7 - 9.7 cm. 7) Bearded axe with long downward-drawn blade and blunt, straight neck. Roman, 3rd - 5th century A.D. Length 8.8 cm. 8-9) Two iron arrowheads, one with barb. Merovingian. 6.7 cm - 7.7 cm. 10) Bridle with two-part bit and U-shaped cheekpiece with central tab and two side rings. Roman. 3rd - 5th century. Length 25.5 cm. 11) Bridle fragment with bar of one-part bit, lateral ring with trapezoidal cheekpieces attached. Roman? Length 13 cm. 12) Spur with long prick, terminating in a quadrangular, pyramidal finial. The arms ending in spectacle-shaped loops with two holes. Salian. 10th - 11th century. 13) Fire steel, blunt, flat bottom, drawn out at one end to a trapezoid, at the other to a point. Medieval. 11th - 12th century. Length 7 cm. CULTURAL ASSET!Provenance: From the Axel Guttmann Collection, acquired in the 1980s and 1990s on the German art market.
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