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Description: | Lochaber axe (?) Made for Queen Victoria for her Balmoral Highlanders. Victorian manufacture having a three pointed crescentic blade cut from steel plate, but no hook. Upper mount separately made from plate and fixed to blade by two rivets. Lower mount consists of a tongue of steel extending from the blade and inserted and wedged in to a slot in the wooden shaft. The shaft is of turned wood with a ferrule at the lower mount, and a conical pointed cap at its foot. (Given the lack of a hook may be a restricted interpretation of a lochaber axe, but also bears similarity to a Bardiche )
Field collector: Ogston, Professor Sir Alexander | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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