Dating the francisca

[Thomas V.]

Can anybody post pictures of the Marteville, Haillot and Spontin axes, plz ?

[attachment=9382]MartevilleGrave13.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=9383]HaillotGrave11.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=9384]SpontinGraveB.jpg[/attachment]

[Thomas V.]

Can anybody post pictures of the Marteville, Haillot and Spontin axes, plz ?

For the lazy ones :

[attachment=9385]MartevilleGrave13.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=9386]HaillotGrave11.jpg[/attachment]

[attachment=9387]SpontinGraveB.jpg[/attachment]


EDIT

Haillot – published in J. Breuer - H. Roosens, Le Cimetière Franc de Haillot. Archaeologica Belgica 34 (1957), available online here:

http://webapps.fundp.ac.be/bib/pdf/424.pdf


Spontin – published in A. Limelette, Cimetière franc de Spontin. Ann. Soc. Arch. de Namur 8, 1863-64, 354, available online here:

googlebooks

Marteville I believe is commonly referred to as Marteville à Vermand. This was published in Eck, Les deux cimetières gallo-romains de Vermand et de Saint-Quentin (1891) and Boulanger, Le Mobilier Funéraire Gallo-Romain et Franc en Picardie et en Artois (1905). I could not find those online but you can find pics in these lavishly illustrated publications of the Met Museum:

From Attila to Charlemagne

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-a...2.143-.146

(links to publications at the lower right of the page)

Neither does Annales de la Société Archéologique de Namur 8 contain a depiction of the Spontin grave B axe, nor do the Met-publications depict the axe found in the grave Marteville 13. The Vermand Treasure was found in the grave Vermand B and therefore not in the grave Marteville 13. The grave Vermand B contained a axe belonging to the same group as the Marteville grave 13 axe (type C of the axes with "Schaftlochlappen"), though.

However, the online version of Le Cimetière Franc de Haillot indeed depicts one of the three axes (Haillot grave 11, fig. 13, p. 219).

[Alanus]

Well, if you axe me?-- the thing was a tomahawk. :whistle:

Looks like a sagaris without the other end. 8+)

[arminius]

Great stuff-
Thanks a lot!

(OK, I am lazy ...)