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Allan Senefelder
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Hi Josh I don't know much about European axes before the 16th century but there was a fella a few months back that offered one of identicle form on ebay and had his labled 15th century . From what little I know of early axes which seem to have been simple , single bladed affairs often not far removed from thier agricultural tree felling relatives this one "feels"
later . 14th-15th century maybe ? Like I said not my area of expertise , hopefully some one here can shed more light on it for you . Either way its a very daunting weapon ! It has a menacing quality in its shape "a very bad axe for a very bad man ".
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Russ Mitchell
Location: Irving, TX Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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Extreme form of a fokos-balta-- not use to such a long back-blade extension, never seen that. Otherwise, typically southern Rus or magyar-affiliated e. europe.
10,000 lemmings can't be wrong.
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Roy K.
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I know this is way late for a reply, but I remembered this weird ax and came across this site today. I thought it might interest somebody out there. http://ina.tamu.edu/SL-tools.htm It's about 3/4 of the way down the page, on the right.
Roy
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Don Halter
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Location: Bryan, TX Joined: 25 Mar 2004
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Interesting...I know the guys here at nautical archaeology here quite well (they taught me how to preserve the stuff I buy). I'll shoot them an email and see what the disposition was of the axe artifacts.
Don "Krag" Halter
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This is a standard topic