Iron or Anvil?

[villival]

I am so sorry about the photos being upside down. I'll have to work on those kinds of glitches.

I dug this on my farm day before yesterday. At first when I pulled it out of the ground, I thought it was an iron, though I thought it was too heavy for that.

I have knocked quite a bit of the concretized dirt off and I see the two knobs are rounded and did not have a handle attached.

This area has been settled since the very late 1700s, early 1800s.

I estimate it's weight at about six to eight pounds. I have found many blacksmith made items on my land. I'm really curious about this one.

 

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[mick56]

Looks like an iron

 

[villival]

I thought so too, at first. But the knobs sticking out of the top are clearly rounded and not broken. So it seems there was never a handle attached. That's what's got me stumped.

 

[desertexplorer]

It’s a sad iron that’s missing the handle (most likely rusted away)

 

[bowwinkles]

There were irons that had multi bottoms that had a mountable handle. the science was that you could leave some on the cook stove top getting hot while you sued one till it got cold and the detachable handle then could be changed to one of the spare hot bottoms from the stove.

some examples here: https://www.ebay.com/i/401749289341...MIqr21xKON6QIVAu21Ch0pdA_eEAQYDSABEgLob_D_BwE

https://www.google.com/search?q=vin.....69i57j0l7.5119j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[No gold in NY]

Picture #3 has me convinced it is an iron. The handle has rusted off or broken.

 

[Tony in SC]

The two knobs were the bases for the smaller handle.

 

[villival]

Thank you all so much. I am so sorry I didn't reply sooner, but my stupid computer blocked your site and one other forum (not metal detecting related) and I couldn't figure out how to unblock it.

I can only imagine the guns on the women who wielded those heavy, heavy pieces of iron. Their dominate arm must have looked like Popeye's.