Viking Axe Classic Riker Box Specimen theropod At 54” wide and weighs

At 54” wide and weighs about 1

" (Source: Mini Museum)

This relatively simple pattern was the standard in Europe for hundreds of years

It is a beautiful specimen with rich colors and intense detail

Viking Axe Classic Riker Box Specimen theropod At 54” wide and weighsMore than 1200 years ago the Vikings left the fjords of modern Scandinavia and set out sea. Today, nearly every country in Europe has a story to tell of the Viking expansion, and the complex history of their many societies is slowly being rediscovered. This specimen is a fragment of a Viking axe head dating to 900 CE. The axe head was restored in the 1960s using the techniques of the time, which tended to focus on the beauty of the finished object as