✅ SOLVED Civil War hand saw?

[nigelrex]

Before getting too excited about this find, I want to run it by the experts. I'm thinking it is an old hand saw stuck very tight in the base of a beautiful oak tree, which was uprooted a bit by a storm and now drying out. It was found in a known campsite near a stream and structure that still needs identification.

 

[Bruce R]

Looks like a plowshare to me

 

[Tony in SC]

I'm with Bruce, Looking like a plow, dig it up and take more pics.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

That was my first thought as well, old plow/hardware point.

Dave

 

[creskol]

That tree is a pine tree and not an oak tree, and not realy terribly old. I agree, too, that it is an implement point.

 

[Toecutter]

If it was stuck in that tree during the Civil War seems like it would be above ground by now, never herd of people cutting trees down below ground level....

 

[ARC]

Dig it out first.

 

[ticndig]

I agree a plow, I've found many like that over the years. lots will be found against a base of a tree where relic hunters of the past left them. .

 

[nigelrex]

Good points, all. Thanks

While our backyard woods clearly was a major campsite area, I think it has been picked over a million times over the years.

 

[Bruce R]

If it was stuck in that tree during the Civil War seems like it would be above ground by now, never herd of people cutting trees down below ground level....

I was watching a show on History channel, and apparently trees don’t grow that way. Something imbedded in a tree 3 ft off the ground 100 years ago will still be roughly that distance today.