art-of-swords:Merovingian SwordDated: 5th century A.D.Provenance: Central EuropeMeasurements: overal
art-of-swords:Merovingian SwordDated: 5th century A.D.Provenance: Central EuropeMeasurements: overall length 92.5cmThe sword has a straight, double-edged, iron blade with central groove. It features a wooden hilt with rectangular quillon roundish at the corners, small round pommel and oval grip thickening towards the quillon, both covered with silver wire binding and five bands of golden thread. The weapon was very likely decorated with polychrome enamels. The pommel has a disc-shaped, golden cap, having its border engraved with triangles, once probably enamelled too.The shape of the hilt seems to belong to the transition Merovingian period between the 2nd type (Northern swords with decorated silver hilt dated around 300 A.D., found in Kragehul Mose, Denmark) and the 4th type swords (5th-7th Century, used by Germanic populations) described by Heribert Seitz in Blankwaffen I, page 90, n. 52.Source: Copyright © 2016 Czerny’s International Auction House S.R.L. -- source link
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