✅ SOLVED Military weapon or tool?

[niffler]

Hi, I found this object on my recent detecting trip to Fort Boise, which operated from 1863 - 1919. The object is hand forged steel. I found lots of cavalry related relics in the same area. Is this a weapon or just a tool of some kind? Thanks in advance for any ideas.

 

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[marion moore]

I thank its a log roller, but the handle is missing. I have seen some that look like that, but they a wooden handle. Marion

 

[jewelerguy]

I agree with marion. looks like a log or ice pike

 

[Tony in SC]

There's a name for them but I've always them a log pike.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'd go with ice pike. (I don't think it's a pivey tip).

 

[namxat]

Found near a waterway or river of some sorts?

Yes, it is a log pike, often used to drive logs downriver. Have people seen gone rather mad that their medieval halbard is a 19th century tool....

 

[Icewing]

Firefighters still used them, it's the business end of a pike pole.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pike+pole&FORM=HDRSC2&PC=MOZB

 

[niffler]

I was afraid of that. Still a cool looking took I guess, just not the rare weapon I had hoped for. Thanks for all the replies, I am marking this one solved.