6 1/4" height with oval eye, the sides extended for better purchase. Wedge section bit with back angled edge. The peen tapered to a small rectangle for helmet crushing. Stable excavated condition. Alemannia was a territory inhabited by Germanic peoples who successfully overthrew Roman rule. It lies in present Bavaria. The Franks subjugated Alemannia in the sixth century, the period of this axe, in the early stages of the consolidation of what was to be the Holy Roman Empire.
