🔎 UNIDENTIFIED 1 Ax Head (How Old) Edit: new photos

[USNFLYR]

My most interesting find of two days along the river. A very rusty and broken ax/hatchet. I have researched it and I can see many versions. I believe this one may once had a hammer/peen on the missing backside, but I can’t be sure… I found this near an area in the Pacific Northwest that had logging/trapping/wharf industrial activity. I plan on sanding away the rust…..

 

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[BennyV]

Looks old and crude

 

[Almy]

Blade is the shape of a broad axe used for squaring timber. The part that would have had the handle hole has been broken off.

 

[ARC]

Hewing hatchet... early hand forged.

 

[USNFLYR]

Blade is the shape of a broad axe used for squaring timber. The part that would have had the handle hole has been broken off.

Thanks Almy!

 

[USNFLYR]

Hewing hatchet... early hand forged.

Excellent!

 

[ARC]

Excellent!

I should have put that it was a guess... unfortunately i don't have xray vision to see through the crud.
So... merely a guess by the look at it from here.

 

[BennyV]

I’m looking for that ax/hatchet dating chart. I can’t find it.

 

[dognose]

without the eye its hard to put a hard date to it. but the hewing axe style looks right.
i cant say 100% its hand forged without seeing a forge lap, which with the rust, will be difficult to determine.

 

[dognose]

 

[USNFLYR]

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This is good stuff. Thanks dognose!

 

[USNFLYR]

I added photos of ax head cleaned up. Other items: pickaroon, pick, possible ax and weight were also added as they were found on following day. Gemplers works like a charm!