The protrusion at the bottom he identified as the attachment point of a haft.
Some froes are made of a single piece of metal with no perpendicular haft.
The haft goes through a biconical drilled hole and is fastened by wedges of antler and by birch-tar.
The haft and sheath are usually made of high quality wood and have inlay of brass and silver.
It employed the new "haft rangi" (seven-colour) style of tile mosaic.
Generally it takes a much longer time to create the actual haft binding than it does the tool used in the half.
They also began to be used widely as an infantry polearm, with the haft lengthening to about 6 ft.
The haft was 120 cm long and wrapped in ornamented birch-bark.
