✅ SOLVED Little ?

[pepperj]

Dug this in my field today.
If it was a foot long I'd have to assume it was a shingle axe/hammer.
This is 3.75 " (broken end)
5/8" wide
1/2" round head
1 1/8" wide of broken end
There is no obvious hole for a handle.
Any insights you may provide would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

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[CreakyDigger]

It does remind one of a small hammer or axe head....someone smarter than I will know.

 

[Mud Hut]

Could it be an old barrel band chisel .. used for popping the bands?

 

[crashbandicoot]

I was thinking the same thing,odd shape for a regular chisel.I saw one once on a old gunsmiths bench and asked him what it was and that was his answer,looked a lot like that one.Interesting find for sure.

 

[ARC]

Looks like part of a very old hook bracket.

Similar to this perhaps... but ?

 

[ARC]

Something just dawned on me...

Foot off an andiron.

Could also be part of a beam spike.

 

[tamrock]

Not sure what it is, but I got one that I found in a wheat field behind me that's been cultivated for better than 100 years. I just thought it came off of some old farm implement of some kind. The one I have is threaded on the end and it looks yours the threads had busted off?

 

[pepperj]

Not sure what it is, but I got one that I found in a wheat field behind me that's been cultivated for better than 100 years. I just thought it came off of some old farm implement of some kind. The one I have is threaded on the end and it looks yours the threads had busted off?

What are the measurements?
Have you got a top view picture ?
Really looks close.

 

[Plug N Play]

Threshing machine tooth.

 

[Mud Hut]

Threshing machine tooth.

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GREAT ID!

 

[tamrock]

Thanks PnP. Now I can imagine what once went on in that old field behind me. I found a large horseshoe from a draft horse out in that field also. The old barbed wire fence has 100 plus old wire and the wood post are all but rotted away. I once saw a surveyor out there and we got to talking and he said the oldest map he could find in the archives had only that fence line as a man made feature on that map and there's an irrigation ditch that's old that wasn't on his earliest map. The county deemed the field open space and its still leased for agriculture, but it will never be developed which is okay by me. The farmer planted corn this season out there and that's the first of that crop I can ever recall of the 30+ years of living by this field.

 

[tamrock]

What are the measurements?
Have you got a top view picture ?
Really looks close.

I'll get it out again and measure it, but it looks about the same size as yours.

 

[pepperj]

Threshing machine tooth.

Well Plug N Play it looks like you've thrashed all the other ideas up and solved the riddle, I thanks you for that.

 

[pepperj]

I'll get it out again and measure it, but it looks about the same size as yours.

Thanks, for your input and showing your find as well. Kind of strange with all the digging I have done in the fields, I think this is the first one of these I've recovered.
Got a harness buckle a few feet away and a horse shoe as well so it looks like it all ties in to one another, that its has been worked for many years.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Guess that old gunsmith didn,t know what he was talking about.You know what they say about old gunsmiths.

 

[tamrock]

Thanks, for your input and showing your find as well. Kind of strange with all the digging I have done in the fields, I think this is the first one of these I've recovered.
Got a harness buckle a few feet away and a horse shoe as well so it looks like it all ties in to one another, that its has been worked for many years.

I'm thinking the one I found was lost around the first quarter of the 20th century. I found this old clip of a wheat harvest of that era. I can see now why my granddads looked so fit and in shape in their elder years.