✅ SOLVED Cast Iron Hook Object

[Vsabre]

Ok super dirt sleuths, I need Your help again. Found this on the back of our property about a foot underground. Property was originally part of a 1800 farming area in Virginia and this was pulled near a creek area that had gristmill operations during that time. Iron material and appears to have a nail driven through the top part and a decorative piece at the bottom. Thanks!!

 

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[ARC]

Resembles part of a horseshoe.
I suggest further cleaning.
nice wash and scrubbing with hot soapy water then repost clean pictures.

 

[Blackfoot58]

I’m with ARC on this one. Looks like an iron shoe. Clean and post another picture.

 

[Almy]

There appears to be ghost holes for the horseshoe nails. Cleaning more should reveal them. Part of a horseshoe makes a pretty good hook for the wall, sometimes used in barns for heavy coats or overalls that workers take off when entering the building. But they make good general clothes hooks, too.

 

[releventchair]

if you painted it orange....i'd go with Cheeto!

I know the material doesn't suit my thinking umbrella or cane handle.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Broken rusty horseshoe.

 

[villagenut]

whack it with a hammer a few times...it will lose some excess weight and conglomerations

 

[Robot]

Hi Vsabre,
My deduction with this farming area would be an 18th Century Sickle Blade.
This blade has not been sharpened for sometime!

 

[Vsabre]

Thanks so much everyone for the suggestions. Here it is after soaking/scrubbing in soap and hot water. Not a much better look but definitely a spot or two with a nail driven through that's rusted closed. The only thing that gives me pause on the horseshoe is that the straight end is definitely beaten much flatter than the curved end like it went in a wooden handle. And as suggested, maybe just a broken horseshoe used as coat hook.. thanks!!!

 

[Robot]

Hi Vsabre,
Try again!
Farming community...maybe a Cultivating blade?

 

[Blackfoot58]

Hi Vsabre,
Try again!
Farming community...maybe a Cultivating blade?

I’m guessing those who have been much thinner material.

 

[ticndig]

horseshoe nails showing , it's a horseshoe

 

[Whynotnow?]

Broken horseshoe, that was used as a horseshoe.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Possibly someone refashioned a broken horseshoe into a cane handle that could explain the smaller end. Or it was for a mis-shapen hoof.