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[digger_au]

Can someone help me identify this tool? It was found in an old barn in the south of England. The barn was built over 500 years ago and i am interested to know the age of the tool and its origins.
It has the word Hubber impressed on it. Does anyone recognise the name?

 

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[texan connection]

I dont Know but it looks to be some kind of Carpenters square

 

[montepollock]

Never seen anthing exactly like it,maybe a scraper/Burnishing tool?Are the edges flattened?

 

[digger_au]

Yes the edges are flattened and it is exactly 30cm long as you can see by the pic.
It certainly appears as though it was a square of some kind but from the hole and the notches in the rounded end it seems to have been used for multi purposes.

 

[Angelo]

Only thing I've found is a Hubber whose trade was that of a Blacksmith in 1851.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blacksmiths/devon-1.htm#H

Still searching.

Tony

p.s; Have you put a square on it?

 

[Wetgreenie]

If guesses are worth anything, I would guess it to be some kind of wood working
Radius guage with tick marks to indicate the 90 deg. points on the half round.

 

[silverswede]

Going along with those suggestions here's a wild guess. A very old architecs curve template for lining out the "ogee' curve used in old English buildings. The Hubber name comes up often when googling Drafting.

 

[Montana Jim]

Interesting tool... I see it as a square or template. I guess there is also the chance that HUBBER is simply the name of the guy who owned the piece. Or a company (not item manufacturer) name.

I dunno...

 

[TreasureTales]

When I first glanced at it I thought it was a shelf bracket, but I don't think that's what it is now that I've looked more carefully. It's cool whatever it is. Congrats on an interesting find.

 

[digger_au]

You guys are the best, thanks.
To answer a few questions, yes i have put a square up against it and it is a perfect 90 degree angle.
I have been told that it is made of wrought iron and the site where the barn stodd was o top of an old monastary which was destroyed about 400 years ago.