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There are only two typologies for Viking Age axes, Petersen from 1919 and Wheeler from 2017. No one has reviewed the typology of axes since Wheeler in 1927. [OTTAWAY 2009]<br>

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Petersen [Pertersen 1919] used the following to determine the typology:<br>

# Spurs - can be long or short, more or less pointed, or cut clean, upper and lower lobes can be of different length, they can be directly opposed to each other, or offset, one further forward than the other [Petersen 1919]. <br> Projecting spurs are a feature of Scandinavian rather than Anglo-Saxon axe heads. [Pearson 1981:p.161]