Hedeby/Haithabu Arrow head B1

£24.60

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Description

B1 Hedeby/Haithabu Arrow head.

We are delighted to present these wonderful close copies of the original head, they are made in the sunny North of  England from Mild steel (High Carbon available upon request POA)

The B1, a decorative bodkin consisting of a concave fullered ferrule, twisted.
M1 measures 100mm in length, of which25mm is tang. At the shoulder, the ferrule is 5mm square, 3.5mm square at the centre of the twist, and 5mm square again at the transition to the
head. The taper of the head is not flat, but convex. The ferrule measures 40mm in length, the head then measures 30mm.

Provenance:

Spurensuche Haithabu, Kurt Schiezel, 2014, page 569

*****Please note that these are made to order and will take 3-4 weeks to arrive*****

 

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