Hello, I'm living in Tyrol and I find this so e time ago in a field. What you think is this? Is ancient or maybe a more modern tool for do work in the forest?
The knives I have from the mid 1800's civil war era have a longer tang that on virtually all are as long as the handle and as thick as the blade. The end of the tang was at the end of the handle.
I don't think it's a knife anything, or any kind of knife. Were it a knife there would be holes in what some are calling the tang. No holes in tang to mount handles means not a knife. Simple as that. What is being called a tang here is also way short for a knife tang in comparison to what some think is the knife blade.