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74 74 A RARE CAROLINGIAN LUGGED SPEAR HEAD, 7TH/10TH CENTURY in excavated condition, with broad leaf-shaped blade formed with a pair of pronounced basal lugs, and tapering faceted socket (losses) 61cm; 24in overall ‡ £500-700 75 A SAXON MINERS GUILD AXE, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY with flat head formed with a characteristic spike fitted at the top with a brass bead, pierced with a slipped trefoil and six holes at the back (one hole broken out), the haft inlaid with numerous staghorn pellets and engraved stag horn rectangular plaques, the latter decorated with flowers and figures in contemporary dress, including the figure of Christ crucified on the back and a kneeling figure on each side of the head, horn basal cap engraved with the initials ‘IHN’ beneath crossed mining implements and with a cross in splendour above (small cracks and repairs) 77cm; 30 3/8in overall
76 A ‘SPANISH’ MORION WITH ETCHED DECORATION IN THE LATE 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN STYLE, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY with two-piece almond-shaped skull joined medially along a low crest surmounted at its apex by a separate backwarddirected ‘stalk’ (loose) and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a separate brim formed in two pieces joined medially and attached to the crown by round-headed rivets decorated peripherally with radiating lines, the brim turned down slightly at each side (the right pierced with a later wiringhole) and rising to an obtuse point front and rear, and its edge formed with a file-roped inward turn, the whole etched on a stippled and blackened ground with scrolling foliage divided by plain vertical bands on each side of the skull into three panels and involving in the central one an escutcheon charged with an eagle displayed 26.5cm; 10 1/2in ‡ £500-700
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