9th-12th century AD. An iron axehead with square-section neck and narrow curved blade; socket with lateral spurs and rectangular hammer extension to the rear, decorative transverse ridges. For similar see Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.14, item 10. 240 grams, 15cm (6"). Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher; previously in a private Dorset, UK, collection, since the 1990s. [No Reserve]