VIKING BRONZE AXE-SHAPED AMULET

Ca. AD 700 - 900. A bronze amulet in the form of a crescentic axe with sharply pointed terminals, one terminating in a hooked projection. The blade is pierced at the centre with a circular hole and the shaft rises to a socketed collar. For similar see: The Archaeological Museum in Kraków, Inventory number: MAK/3664. Size: 39.7mm x 47.3mm; Weight: 6.18g Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the Austrian art market in the 1990s.