Diabolical Hook!

[goldencoin]

Hi, found this yesterday, I'm too lazy to re-post it so here's a link

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,22537.0.html

 

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[omnicognic]

here is the pic:

 

[Timmyjohn]

You being from Florida I would of thought you new right off. Why it's Captain hooks hook, the gator left it behind to be found to tell the tail.

 

[Timmyjohn]

Seriously it looks like a fire stoker.

 

[ctalmadg]

Wow... neat item... It almost looks like a bent older type bayonet.

 

[rovnrbl]

Civil War soldiers would bend their bayonets exactly like that for at least two purposes - one when in camp to hang cooking pots from or move the hot pots or use to move bodies battlefield or diseased. Not sure what context this was found in but perhaps there were more modern soldiers or civilians at a nearby camp that used this for cooking. If you're in a CW area, I'd suggest looking for a nearby camp - high ground, water and firewood.

 

[omnicognic]

Confirmed:

Corpse Hook:

from http://www.joshuasattic.com/search/product.asp?ID=1446

#1446 - A Corpse-hook Bayonet

This Civil War Enfield bayonet was dug from along the Railroad tracks, 300-400 yards down from the site of a Confederate camp just outside the Orange County Hospital. This camp was where typhoid victims were isolated. The bayonet has been bent to a hook on the end. These were often used to drag corpses off to burial. Could also have been used as a pot hook, but the proximity to a hospital dying-field suggests the prior use! Similar hooks were no doubt used after battles to clear the dead. More often than not, burial details, often made up of conscripted slaves, would toss bodies onto buckboard wagons or bury them on the field. Long trenches were dug with bodies laid side to side, the dirt from the next space tossed over to cover the previous body in line.

 

[dano91]

Excelent find!!! put that sucker on ebay...its got double history to it$$$$$$$

 

[JakePhelps]

hmmm but it looks like its made out of copper, they would not make a bayonet out of copper, too soft of a metal im still going with lightning rod

 

[parrothead]

Looks like it used to be a lightning rod that has ben altered for a different purpose. Perhaps a bailing hook to help grab and move bales of hay.

 

[goldencoin]

OK, It can't possibly be a bayonet, because i found in in ill. by a barn, it looks melted and there is a texture on top that would suggest that. The theory that i postulated is that either it was a lightning rod hit by lighting, then cast aside, or a lightning rod that was melted in extreme heat for a hay hook or for other reasons unknown.