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Viking Age Compendium articles on Crafts:
Viking Age Compendium articles on Crafts:
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Typology
We are using Steven Ashby's Typology.
Ashby Type 1a - Early Anglo-Saxon
Date: AD300-600
Ashby Type 1b - Barred
Date: AD500-800
Type 2 -
Date: AD300-600
Type 3 -
Type 4 - Horn
Type 5 - Norse
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Type 6 - Short
Type 7 - Long
Hesket, England
Type 8i - Short
Type 8ii - Long
Type 8iii -
Type 9 - Copper
Hedeby, Old Denmark
References
Arbman, Holger (1940) Birka 1 Die Graber: Tafeln. [The Graves: Plates] Birka, Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien [ARBMAN 1940] *
Ashby, Steve (2007) 'Bone and Antler Combs' Finds Research Group Datasheets 25-40: No.40 [ASHBY 2007] *
Ashby, Steven P. (2014) A Viking Way Of Life. Combs and Communities in Early Medieval Britain. [ASHBY 2014] *