Oakeshot Type X Medieval Sword of Late Viking Form

[Jack Loomes]

Editor's Note: Sword was listed for sale as a Type XI, though personally I'd nominate it as a Type X.

A Sword Of Viking Type, Oakeshott's Type XI

12th/13th Century

In excavated condition, with broad tapering double-edged blade with wide central fuller over most of its length on both sides, the fuller on one side at the forte incised with a cross potent, hilt comprising straight tapering quillons of rectangular section swelling at the tang, flat tapering tang, and large Brazil-nut pommel (some flaking)

83 cm. blade, 98.5 cm. overall

FOOTNOTES

For a related sword in the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, see Ewart Oakeshott, Records Of The Medieval Sword, 1991, p. 55, XI.3

Sold for £3,750

25 Nov 2015

London, Knightsbridge

For more information on Oakeshott Type X swords see this extract from Ewart Oakeshott's Records of the Medieval Sword: sword-site.com/thread/118/oakeshott-type-records-medieval-sword

For more information on Oakeshott Type XI swords see this extract from Ewart Oakeshott's Records of the Medieval Sword: sword-site.com/thread/126/oakeshott-type-records-medieval-sword

Source: www.bonhams.com/auctions/22749/lot/102/