✅ SOLVED ferrous object found in former sheep pasture-any ideas?

[Mudslide]

 

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[surf]

How eccentrically pointy!

 

[yelnif]

Hello Mudslide, That's a very interesting item you have there- 'specialized', specific use - it looks like the curved segment was either made that way/ or was bent a long time ago. Can you tell if it was made that way? How thick is the item? Might be a part from a hand wagon/ or carriage. What else have you found in the area/ site? More pics might help. Hope someone comes up with an answer.

yelnif

 

[cudamark]

Maybe a lantern hook?

 

[Mudslide]

There is so much corrosion that I can't really tell if and where it was bent. I think the idea that it was a tool has some merit. It does look like a "froe" from the one pic I could find online. It is 1/2 inch at its thickest-the end that may have fit into a handle. The stuff I have found there ranges from sheep bells, horseshoes, to inkwells ,and from the early 1800s to 1907. Thanks for looking and thinking











about it!

 

[cheese]

Reminds me of a boot scraper.

 

[yelnif]

Nice ID cheese- HH

 

[SCDigginWithAK]

I believe cheese is right!

 

[GpSnoopy]

I like that idea. This is how I envision it working as a wall mounted boot scraper.

The bottom part only needs a bit of straightening so that the vertical part is aligned against the wall and the little spike end is hammered into the wall. Acts like a brace, similar to a wall shelf bracket.

 

[Mudslide]

Thanks so much, guys!!!

 

[yaxthri]

Mark this one solved!