Old anchor help

[Jethro11]

I posted this elsewhere on the site not realizing that the shipwreck forum was here.
Found this 7.5' long, 300+lb anchor on my land along the Kennebec River in Maine. Wondering if anybody on here might have any information for me about it.
Thanks

 

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[sphillips]

Don’t have a clue, but very cool!

 

[Colombiapictures]

I posted this elsewhere on the site not realizing that the shipwreck forum was here.
Found this 7.5' long, 300+lb anchor on my land along the Kennebec River in Maine. Wondering if anybody on here might have any information for me about it.
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Forged anchor, date about 1500 to 1550

 

[sphillips]

Might get the metal detector out on your property

 

[tamrock]

This anchor in the link provided is said to have been forged in Essex Massachusetts in the 19th century. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Locatio...useum-North_Truro_Cape_Cod_Massachusetts.html ... It is very similar at the top end with the square hole and has that square wood post through it and aged appearance. I'm not convinced that this element of de-laminating of forged iron is a way to determine age. I base that on this axe head I found at the site of an old coal mine out back, as the area I found it wasn't really settled and developed here until the last quarter of the 19th century. This axe head I found is de-laminating and crumbling apart and was probably forged around the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th. I'm thinking your anchor was made in the middle span of 19th century.