Hi...
Please help me identify this item, thanks in advance). Ax weight 0.75 kg.
Battle-axe
Battle-axe
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Johann ColdIron
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Re: Battle-axe
The single sided bevel design implies Wood working tool to me. Used for squaring timbers from logs. Appears to be a higher carbon bit forge welded to a iron body. The form is used through out the Viking and Medieval periods. The ornamentation is hard to ID given the condition. Any design on the flat side?
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Re: Battle-axe
Looks like a wood axe. Possible design on the last picture.
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Konstantin the Red
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Re: Battle-axe
I too think this is a wood-hewer's tool to square logs into beams.
The homicidal meataxes for war had centered blades, also flat of cross section through the blade, and oftener than not a pointier extended toe for some hook-and-thrust capability over a shield, for instance.
Something that doesn't much show in the profile pix you usually see is just how light-built war-axes were -- the opposite of the wedgey cross section of the modern timber axe.
The homicidal meataxes for war had centered blades, also flat of cross section through the blade, and oftener than not a pointier extended toe for some hook-and-thrust capability over a shield, for instance.
Something that doesn't much show in the profile pix you usually see is just how light-built war-axes were -- the opposite of the wedgey cross section of the modern timber axe.