Introduction
Wheeler Type I
Petersen Type A
A small woodland axe that altered little from pre-Roman times on-wards.
England, York: Coppergate A
- Current Location- Yorkshire Museum
- Type- ?
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- Waterman-Axe 5
England, York: Coppergate B
- Current Location- Yorkshire Museum
- Type- ?
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- Waterman-Axe 6
England, London: River Thames, Old London Bridge
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ?
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England, London: River Thames, Putney
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- Type- ?
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England, London: River Thames, Walthamstow (I)
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- Type- ?
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Wheeler Type II
No Petersen Type
This type was more likely to be a tool than a weapon. Earlier types are not so slender [Wheeler 1927]
England, York: Parliament Street
- Current Location- Yorkshire Museum
- Type- ?
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- Waterman-Axe 7
England, London: River Thames, Brentwood
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ? C9th
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England, London: River Thames (II-1)
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ? C9th
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England, London: River Thames (II-2)
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ? C9th
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England, London: River Thames, Walthamstow (II)
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ? C9th
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England, London: Milk Street
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Wheeler Type III
Petersen Type B & C
Bearded axes that derived from fransica’s.
Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby (III-1)
- Current Location- ?
- Type- Grave find. Grave 2(i)
- Find Date- 1877
- L- 14.5cm x W- 5cm
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Scotland, Argyll and Bute, Islay: Ballinaby (III-2)
- Current Location- ?
- Type- Grave find. Grave 2(i)
- Find Date- 1877
- L- 14cm x W- 9cm
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Scotland, Eigg: Grave 2
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ? Type B
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- L-10.5cm x W- 10cm
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Scotland, Westray: Pierowall
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ? Type B
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- L-14cm x W-10cm
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Scotland, Orkney, Isle of Islay:
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England, Suffolk: Ipswich
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ? C9th
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- ornamented with cross-lines between blade and socket
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England, Suffolk: Ipswich
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ?
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- vertical grooves on socket
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England, London: River Thames at Whitehall
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ?
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- Bibliography- [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940:VP.86}}
England, London: Strand on the Green
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Thames nr London ?
Reading ?
Hastings Downs ?
Wheeler Type IV
Petersen Type G, H, I, K & L
England, York
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England, York: Jubbergate
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- Type- ?
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Isle of Man, Knoc-y-doonee
Isle of Man, Ballaterson
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Oxford
- Current Location- Pitt Rivers Museum
- Type- Petersen G
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England, London: Thames Street
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England, London: Aldergate
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- Type- ?
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England, London: nr Tower of London
- Current Location- ?
- Type- ?
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- Axe tower of London.jpg
Wheeler Type V
Petersen Type D, E & F
Transitional between types III and IV
Scotland, Skye, Sheabost, Tote
- Current Location-
- Type- F
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Scotland, Colonsay: Kiloran Bay
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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- 20.5cm x W: 13.5cm
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- Axe Kiloran Bay V.jpg
Scotland, Caithness: Reay
- Current Location-
- Type- E
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England, Cumbria: Cumwhitton
- Current Location-
- Type- Grave Find
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- Style - Petersen Type E
- Dimensions-
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- Paterson-Axe Grave 4
England, Cumberland: Hesket-in-Forest
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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England, Derbyshire: Repton
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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- Axe Repton V.jpg
England, London: Kew Bridge
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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- Axe Kew V.jpg
Wheeler Type VI
Petersen Type M
The ‘Dane Axe’ appears in Britain from 1000AD onwards.
Scotland: Loch of Doon
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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- Axe Loch of Doon VI.jpg
Scotland, Dumfriesshire:
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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- Axe Dumfriesshire VI.jpg
Scotland, Sutherland: Dunrobin Castle
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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England, Lincolnshire, River Witham
- Current Location-
- Type- ?
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- Axe Tower of London VI.jpg
England, Oxfordshire, River Thames at Stanton Harcourt
- Current Location-
- Type- R560
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England, Norfolk: River Yare, Surlingham Ferry
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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
England, Cambridgeshire, Ely
England, Cambridgeshire, Ely
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England, Essex: River Lea, Stratford
- Current Location- Pitt Rivers Museum 1954.11.11. Was previously at Newbury Museum: 1898-5
- Type- River Find?
- Find Date- before 1898?
- Shape- Like R560 (Bjorn & Shetelig 1940)
- Dimensions- L=215mm, W=252mm
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England, London: Austin Friars
- Current Location-
- Type- L
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England, London: River Thames at Hamersmith
- Current Location-
- Type- M
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- Axe Hammersmith VI.jpg
England, London, River Thames at Tower of London
- Current Location- London Museum
- Type- ?
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- Axe Tower of London VI.jpg
England, London, River Thames at Chelsea, Barnes
- Current Location- London Museum
- Type- ?
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- Axe Chelsea VIa.jpg
England, London: River Thames at Chelsea, Barnes
- Current Location- London Museum
- Type- ?
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- Axe Chelsea VIb.jpg
England, London, River Thames at Battersea
- Current Location- London Museum
- Type- ?
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- Axe Battersea VI.jpg
England, London: River Thames at Old London Bridge
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Select Bibliography
Bjorn, Anathon, and Shetelig, Haakon (1940) Viking Antiquities in England. Edited by Haakon Shetelig. (Available Online) Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland: Part 4 [BJORN & SHETELIG 1940] *
Grieg, Sigurd (1940) Viking Antiquities in Scotland. Edited by Haakon Shetelig. (Available Online) Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland: Part 2 [GRIEG 1940] *
Roesdahl, Else; Graham-Campbell, James; Connor, Patricia and Pearson, Kenneth (1981) The Vikings in England, and their Danish homeland. [ROESDAHL 1981] *