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A knife with a blade length of 17cm (6½") or longer possibly used in combat.
Seaxes with blade lengths over 6½” long were popular during the C6th Anglo-Saxon pagan period. It is not uncommon for burials in the Viking age to contain more than one knife. [BERSU and WILSON 1966]:p.41 Wheeler gives his opinion that small heavy seaxes were in use up until the end of the C10th but that really as a weapon it belongs to the pre-Viking period. [WHEELER 1927]:p.30
Seaxes from the C9th
Knives
Art
- Paris, BNF, Lat. 8085 fol.57r. Virtue, armed with a sword and seax, combating a Vice.
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Sheaths
Art
- England, Dorset, Cranborne. Silver strap-end [HINTON 2005]:p.113
- England, Derbyshire, Repton. C8th, Stone carving,
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Archaeology
[CAMERON 2000]:p.63-64
- Dover, Buckland, grave 145, leather sheath dated to 700-750AD
- London, River Thames nr. Westminster Bridge, metal fittings, late C8th
- York, leather sheath, C9th
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Seaxes from the C10th and C11th
Knives
Art
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Archaeology
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Sheaths
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Literature
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Archaeology
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Seax hanging position
At the front - Horizontal
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Archaeology
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At the side – Angled
Art
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Literature
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Archaeology
- Norse blades
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At the back
Art
- Bayeux Tapestry
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Archaeology
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See Also
References
- [BERSU and WILSON 1966] ^
- [CAMERON 2000] ^
- [HINTON 2005] ^
- [MOULD, CARLISLE and CAMERON 2003]
- [WHEELER 1927] ^