24 inch edged weapon

[okerraine]

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My buddy found this along with other Civil War artifacts at a Civil War skirmish site at eight inches down. Anyone have an answer to as what this might be? I forgot to add an important piece of info to the knife/blade. The cutting edge is on the inside, not on the out.

 

[UnderMiner]

The rivets at the end probably would have held a wooden handle in place, must have been some kind of large knife, maybe homemade, the curve to it suggests it was meant for fighting, was probably lost during the confusion of battle.

 

[okerraine]

Thank you UnderMiner

 

[trapperart]

Congrats to you and your buddy nice finds

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on a very nice find.

 

[ironhorse]

your knife could possibly fall into the category of fascine knife or billhook
used as utilitarian tool for clearing brush and vegetation and also as a military sidearm

 

[Jason in Enid]

looks like a cane knife, but would work very well for fighting too. cool dig!

 

[GB1]

sweet find

 

[smokeythecat]

Nice item. Could be a repurposed corn knife, used to harvest corn, and attack yankees too.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice find!

 

[okerraine]

Thank you !

 

[Daryn]

Looks like the Reb dropped it running away from one of us Yankees [emoji23]

 

[okerraine]

Would of been nice if I had found it [emoji23]. I told my Buddy that I was just a little jealous.