Thread: Moroccan axe?
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Old 17th November 2018, 07:38 PM   #3
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As I suspected, the bit of the haft near the socket looks like it had been slid off and repositioned. It coming from Israel made me suspicious of the Maroc connection too.

The question now is where was it from?

I suspect the bird is NOT one of Odin's Ravens, and the blade foliage decor is NOT Yggdrasil . Hornbeam, if it is hornbeam, is native to northern Europe and eastern Asia, not north africa, tho there was trade all over. Another one I found online was attributed to Algeria. It had the head on correctly and had a horrible multicolour horizontal stripe painted and lathe turned haft.
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