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* England, London. One find from cheapside could have had a blade of 25cm. [CAMERON 2000: p.64-65] | * England, London. One find from cheapside could have had a blade of 25cm. [CAMERON 2000: p.64-65] | ||
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* York [MOULD, CARLISLE and CAMERON 2003: p3379-3385] | * York [MOULD, CARLISLE and CAMERON 2003: p3379-3385] |
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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
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Archaeology
- England,York. Out of 128 knives found from Coppergate only 1 can be classed as a seax. [CAMERON 2000]:p.64-65
- England, London. One find from cheapside could have had a blade of 25cm. [CAMERON 2000]:p.64-65
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Sheaths
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Archaeology
- England, 12 finds (out of a total of 61 knife sheaths) [CAMERON 2000]:p.64-65
- York [MOULD, CARLISLE and CAMERON 2003]:p3379-3385
- Ireland, Dublin. Style E1 [CAMERON 2007: p.15-20]
- [CAMERON 2000]:p.64-65
Discussion
Substantial leather up to 3mm thick. Closed by rivets about 4 to 5cm apart. [CAMERON 2000]:p.64-65
Seax hanging position
At the front - Horizontal
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At the side – Angled
Art
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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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